Re: [emergency] A Registry (was [emergency]RE:[emergency-comment] Proposal: add <responseType> element in <info>)

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Carl,

This is exactly where I was heading with this, or at least one of the 
main directions I was heading with it.

The ISO approval of ebXML bodes well for this.


Ciao,
Rex

At 10:26 AM -0500 3/29/04, Carl Mattocks wrote:
>Gentle CAP folk:
>
>If you would allow yourself to consider this type of task as managing
>'semantic content' (using an owl ontology and/or topic map)..
>please consider partnering with the ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content
>Management SC. I believe we could agree on a 'Use Case' that would be of
>interest to all.
>
>regards
>
>carl
>
><quote who="Rex Brooks">
>>  Actually, it's a bit more complex and more work than that because it
>>  simply wouldn't fly to choose just one registry information format
>>  when we have two, with individual repositories which are special
>>  cases of each, and possibilities for more combinations since, at
>>  least in WSRP we are creating technical notes for both UDDI and
>>  ebXML, so I think that the task ahead of us will be one of taking
>>  these two formats and specifying EM-specific notes for implementing
>>  the work we do, including CAP, which I think we also need to consider
>>  as only one of our on-going work areas.
>>
>>  So, while CAP is a standalone specification, I think that over time
>>  we will be including it within a family of specifications that
>>  addresses some if not all of the needs, on a global scale, that are
>>  described in the NIMS-90 document.
>>
>>  It may be that we suggest that OASIS take on the work of building an
>>  maintaining a EM-specific repository, implementing both UDDI and
>>  ebXML, or that we pursue a joint-registries committee, including the
>>  current specifications registry, and see if we can find or create an
>>  appropriate non-governmental entity capable, without any
>>  vendor-specific bias, of maintaining the kind of repository that is
>>  needed, not only by the EM community, but by other
>>  specification/standards communities.
>>
>>  That consideration is what has been underlying my own research and
>>  liaison activity in this area, and there are a few others in TCs such
>>  as ebXML regrep, BCM, CAM, WSRP. WSPEL, UBL, etc. This kind of efort
>>  also includes cross-consortia liaison work with W3C (VXML for Web
>>  Services in particular), HR-XML Consortium, ISO and the Web3D
>>  Consortium, just to name those with which I am familiar. XNS brought
>>  its work under OASIS, in the XRI and XDI TCs as has some of the work
>>  of XTM (which has its own independent consrtium as well, xtm.org) in
>>  the topic maps arena, with the TopicMaps for Published Subjects and
>>  Published Subjects in Geography and Languages TCs (somewhat overlapps
>>  the XLIFF TC), and the TopicMaps Vocabulary for Standards and
>>  Technologies.
>>
>>  It can get bewildering at times since we recently experienced a
>>  burgeoning of TCs as well as outside consortia, which I personally
>>  now expect to experience a shakeout.
>>
>>  Ciao,
>>  Rex
>>
>>  At 7:55 PM -0800 3/28/04, Art Botterell wrote:
>>>To do what Bob suggests it seems like we'll need either to select or
>>>to create an actual, particular, usable instance of a registry and
>>>an equally specific framework for maintaining our entries.  In the
>>>absence of which we've been muddling.
>>>
>>>Perhaps Bob can help us make the leap from theory to practice in this
>>>  area.
>>>
>>>- Art
>>>
>>>
>>>At 7:39 PM -0800 3/28/04, Rex Brooks wrote:
>>>>OASIS has started a registry for standards, and we have looked at
>>>>ebXML Registry and UDDI for use in the web services arena, and we
>>>>have put liaison work for making certain that any work we do in
>>>>this area is well grounded near the top of our priorities list, and
>>>>we welcome more participation. I'm personally a fan of XTM, and
>>>>have recommended it in several contexts.
>>>>
>>>>Ciao,
>>>>Rex
>>>>
>  >>>At 4:37 PM -0800 3/28/04, Art Botterell wrote:
>>>>>At 6:17 PM -0500 3/28/04, Bob Wyman wrote:
>>>>>>	Please consider establishing registries for the CAP enumerated
>>>>>>types, using Topic Maps (i.e. XTM) as the method for describing the
>>>>>>enumerations, and using URN's as the values of the enumerators.
>>>>>
>>>>>Again, the problem isn't that it hasn't been considered, but that
>>>>>so far nobody's come forward to actually do the work involved.
>>>>>
>>>>>And as has been discussed on a number of occasions, this becomes
>>>>>even more salient when we start developing other recommendations
>>>>>beyond CAP.
>>>>>
>
>
>
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