Solving Real Enduser Problems (Was Re: [regrep] Booz Allen Hamilton paper online)

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

Revisiting a 6-month-old e-mail that David Webber sent back in April...

Are we any closer now to David's vision than we were back then?

Kind Regards,
Joe

David RR Webber - XML ebusiness wrote:
> 
> Teams,
> 
> Applying some rather brutal marketplace observations here - customers
> could not careless either way - to them - its just a webpage thru a portal
> to information.
> 
> They could not careless if it is ebXML, UDDI, FAX group 4, XML-witchcraft
> or similar.
> 
> So the sooner we realize that the bigger challenge is getting ANY real
> marketplace implementations on a large scale that solve REAL enduser
> problems - and I'm talking about widespread use of classifications and
> ability to traverse and discover information - rather than limited
> experiments -
> and user communities proactively working with registries to dynamically
> grow uses - the sooner we collectively together move this whole
> elephant forward - then that is the measure that I'm looking for.
> 
> Frankly - its long overdue time - to stop thinking about separate items
> of technology here - that customers can just turn away from as yet
> another example of marketplace confusion - should I buy the
> light-grey one or the dark-gray one?
> 
> It's one boat - and we're all in it - so we'd better start figuring out
> which directions to row in, and row collaboratively.
> 
> We're hardly a good example of what we are preaching, eh?
> 
> I think the engine should be in the front; no, it should be in the
> back;  no it has to go in the middle;  will someone please define
> an engine?  Are we building a car, a boat or an aircraft?
> 
> If we could agree on key functionality that endusers need from
> registries - the top 5 list - then combine resources to show
> how to deliver those for the top 5 business use cases, using
> combined OASIS Registry technologies - then we might
> ctually surprise ourselves, no?
> 
> DW.
> ==========================================================
> Message text written by "Patil, Sanjaykumar"
> >
> I think the article implicitly acknowledges your observation, as the very
> first item under the "Interoperability Between Registries" in the article
> is titled :- "Using UDDI to find ebXML Registry/Repository".
> 
> In addition, the article is also bringing forth the "possibility" (aptly
> under  a section - "Additional Possibilities") that an ebXML registry can
> be used for discovering a UDDI Registry. I do not think it is very
> confusing to think of this possibility. Imagine a scenario where there are
> just so many publicly maintained and ubiquitous UDDI Registries out there
> that an organization may have to depend upon its internal ebXML Registry
> for browsing the many and possibly picking one amongst them. On the other
> hand, I think the reasons are clear about why the organization may be using
> ebXML Registry for its internal usage.
> 
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