Re: [uddi-spec] Namespace management (corrected spelling)

[Max Voskob <mvoskob@msi.com.au>]

Matthew,

That's the problem. UDDI is being considered by many as a registry of
informational artifacts for an enterprise. I'm one of them. :)
And UDDI is almost there! It's got a huge potential, much more potential
then any competing standard at the moment.
All we need is a little effort to get the external taxonomies going and
probably add a couple more minor features without changing the concept.
On the other hand I can't see the consensus amongst the members to rephrase
the purpose of UDDI.

I personally came across quite a few cases where organisations (incl. NZ
Gov, OZ Gov) were seriously considering UDDI as a multi-purpose registry.
They did so not from misunderstanding of UDDI, but from seeing a great
potential in the standard and its implementations.

I would suggest to include it in the agenda of one of the upcoming telecons
and discuss it openly, if the other TC members are interested, of coz.

Cheers,
Max


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Dovey" <matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk>
To: "Max Voskob" <mvoskob@msi.net.nz>; "uddi-spec"
<uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:16 AM
Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] Namespace management (corrected spelling)


This sounds like the problem space that metadata registries and ISO
11179 aim to address (see http://www.schemas-forum.org/ for a EU project
in this area).

I'm pretty sure that this isn't a question that UDDI has attempted to
tackle. I'm not entirely sure whether it is a question that UDDI should
tackle - my undertanding is that UDDI is a directory of WebServices
rather than a universal directory for everything Web/WebService related
(but that's just my opinion)

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
<snip>

Imagine an organisation where 25 departments are creating different XML
documents and formalise them with all sorts of documentation including
XML
Schemas. How do they ensure that the new namespace ID they've just come
up
with is not already used somewhere else within the organisation?
Sure, they can write a 25 page guide how to name their namespaces (if
they
can't they email me and I'll write one for them :), but it's hard to
reinforce anyway.

<snip>
Can one do it using available UDDI means at the moment?
I don't think so, but I can be wrong. Please correct me.


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