[tannhaeuser]

> SOAP was designed as an object-access protocol and released as XML-RPC in June 1998 as part of Frontier 5.1 by Dave Winer, Don Box, Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein for Microsoft, where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein were working. The specification was not made available until it was submitted to IETF 13 September 1999. [1]

WSDL 1.0's list of editors reads [2]:

> Erik Christensen, Microsoft; Francisco Curbera, IBM; Greg Meredith, Microsoft; Sanjiva Weerawarana, IBM

IOW, TypeScript is by the same company as SOAP and WSDL.

> Nowadays big companies rarely work together [...] That results in a higher quality approaches

[Citation needed]

[1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP>

[2]: <http://xml.coverpages.org/wsdl20000929.html>