UDDI as the registry for ebXML components

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Registry TC,

Here is the change request that I am recommending we send to the UDDI TC
regarding the discussed paragraphs in the "UDDI as the registry for
ebXML components" Technical Note. Please comment by COB today if you
think that the changes are not appropriate. Please also keep in mind
that this is their Technical Note (so my intent was not to tone down
their descriptions of UDDI's capabilities), and we can take all the
opportunities we would like to have ebXML Registry and Web Services
shine within our own Technical Notes.

Thanks,
Joe

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Multiple consortia have initiated pilot projects using the ebXML
framework for business-to-business transactions, while corporations
have also begun adopting ebXML technologies for internal
use. At the same time Web service technologies, which have significant
momentum due to unprecedented industry support, are also being
rolled out. This introduces significant concerns of cost and
manageability, because ebXML and Web services impose separate
infrastructure requirements and platform components.

As a universal technology for publication and discovery of service
metadata, UDDI allows the bridging of the two infrastructures by
accommodating metadata registrations for Web services as
well as ebXML framework components, enabling interoperability among
trading partners using ebXML or Web services. However, a prescribed
methodology of modeling services and components which are conformant to
ebXML specifications is required to make interoperable solutions
possible.
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Multiple consortia have initiated pilot projects using the ebXML
framework for business-to-business transactions, while corporations
have also begun adopting ebXML technologies for internal use. At the
same time Web service technologies, which have significant momentum
due to unprecedented industry support, are also being rolled out. UDDI
can play a major role in enabling trading partners and their Web
services and ebXML infrastructures to interact using UDDI as a common
registry. This is the focus of this Technical Note.

In addition to being a universal technology for publication and
discovery of service metadata, UDDI also enables discovery of ebXML
framework components such as Collaboration Protocol Profile and Business
Process Specification Schema. This capability can help enable
interoperability among trading partners that use UDDI and ebXML
framework components. However, a prescribed methodology of modeling
services and components which are conformant to ebXML specifications is
required to make interoperable solutions possible. 
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