WSDM 1.0 was approved as an [[OASIS (organization)|OASIS]] standard on [[March 9]], [[2005]].<ref name="wsdm10">{{cite web|url=http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_03_09_05.php|date=[[2005-03-09]]|title=Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Approved as OASIS Standard|publisher=OASIS Consortium}}</ref> The approval of the WSDM 1.1 specification occurred on [[September 7]], [[2006]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2006-09-07.php|title=Members Approve Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) 1.1 as OASIS Standard|date=[[2006-09-07]]|publisher=OASIS Consortium}}</ref>
WSDM consists of two specifications:<ref name="wsdm10"/>
