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RE: UDDI, uddi.org and an open source project at SourceForge

• From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• To: 'Gavin Thomas Nicol' <gtn@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 19:28:07 -0700

> boils down to a degree of trust, because no organization
> has control over the registry (yet).

The press release at http://www.uddi.org/uddipr09062000.html lists a fairly
large number of companies behind this.  If you look at the names, you'll see
that there's probably little chance for anyone to be controlling anyone
else.  This is the sort of thing that is most valuable when people are
cooperating, and nobody on the list is afraid to keep the other participants
honest.

"American Express Co., Andersen Consulting, Ariba Inc., Bowstreet, Cargill
Inc., Clarus Corp., Commerce One Inc., CommerceQuest Inc., Compaq Computer
Corp., CrossWorlds Software Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Descartes, Extricity
Software Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Great Plains, i2, IBM Corp., Internet Capital
Group, Loudcloud Inc., match21, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp.,
NEON, Nortel Networks Corp., NTT Communications Corp., Rational Software
Corp., RealNames Corp., Sabre Holdings Corp., SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc.,
TIBCO Software Inc., Ventro Corp., Versata Inc., VeriSign, VerticalNet Inc.
and webMethods Inc. are among the first to endorse and collaborate on UDDI"

Regards,
Joshua

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@e...]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:00 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: UDDI, uddi.org and an open source project at SourceForge
> 
> 
> > It is good that the participants have decided to 
> > cooperate but nothing about this other than that 
> > is news.  Registry-based description systems for 
> > services have been recognized as the way to do 
> > distributed operations cross-company since 
> > DICE (DARPA Initiative In Concurrent Engineering, K.I. 
> > Singh, et al) initiative. 
> ....  
> > Interestingly, the Trust model was emphasized then too.
> 
> UDDI is just a registry, and is hence limited in it's 
> effectiveness by the entries in it... which ultimately 
> boils down to a degree of trust, because no organization
> has control over the registry (yet).
> 
> Like domain names, there will probably be fierce competition
> over entries in the global repository, and there will be
> QOS issues. 
> 

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