Re: [tm-pubsubj-comment] RE: [tm-pubsubj] global UDDI registry

[Mary Nishikawa <nisikawa@fuchinobe.skk.slb.com>]

See my comments below.


At 09:15 AM 12/11/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Bernard Vatant:
> > All that lets me wondering ... in a nutshell : What
>business case does UDDI
>support? I don't really know about OASIS policy
>regarding UDDI, but that is
>indeed something to think about ...

Scott:
>Web services seem to promote more on "application
>integration" in lieu of "information integration" (see
>http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1457).  While XML's
>advantage is to provide a sharable data format lest
>vendor lockin, application vendors seem to promote web
>services in order to get us (the IT consumer) back
>under their controls of the web.  I personally do not
>see a good business case for the "discovery" features
>of UDDI and WSDL at where I belong.



Mary:
I recently attended JavaOne in Japan and this got me thinking...
If you look at Bernard's dtds, they look as if they should be used for a 
topic map registry with published subjects for a  "merge map" web 
service... or maybe I am thinking too far ahead in advance ;-)
I could see a registration of templates or schemas for topic maps that 
could be used by companies who wished to merge information.
The uddi would take care of the registration and secure identity of 
businesses that would use the maps.

Of course, we would not need to have a web service and uddi to do this sort 
of thing; let's say we wanted to merge our maps. I could  just as well send 
you a CD with my TM schema and my TM through the snail mail, you could then 
use the schema to create your TM, use the schema to migrate your 
database  into the xml Map, and  then use an application to merge the maps.

In addition,  we still need to address the "network binding points"  idea 
that is discussed in Bernard's Paper, Binding Points for Subject Identity 
and what the requirements for this would be. This is where the web services 
idea may be applicable, too.

Anyway, the message that I took home from the conference was, once we have 
identity (users/agents, services, packets over networks) anything is 
possible in the realm of Web Services.

Cheers,
Mary

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