The document discusses the evolution of semantic web services from traditional web services. It describes how semantic web technologies can be used to describe web services using ontologies like OWL-S. This allows web services to be defined and discovered based on their semantic meaning rather than just their syntax. It also outlines the key components involved in a semantic web services infrastructure like directories, matchmakers and invokers. Finally, it discusses some of the main organizations involved in developing semantic web service standards like W3C and DARPA.