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• Subject: Service discovery
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:20:39 -0800
• References: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E4306FEE857@HQ5>

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 
> <ack>Lyrics from Springsteen</ack>
> 
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]
> 
> >Google is a registry.
> 
> Then I need to be more specific:  I need a registry of businesses
> of a type (first, and yes, Google can offer that service).  Then
> I need a registry of services (and they can do that too).  But
> eventually, I want to hook my services to the services I discover
> and let them run as much as possible on their own.  I may not want
> Google in that loop anymore than I want a car salesman to be
> my chauffeur.

Once you've got the URI for their service description (WSDL, IDL, RDF or
whatever) on their site, you don't need to use the registry anymore. All
you need is to follow a hyperlink from the registry to their machine
processable documentation, at their site.

 Paul Prescod

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