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RE: Using RDDL as a Distributed Registry Architecture

• To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Using RDDL as a Distributed Registry Architecture
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:49:38 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <3DA1E8E2.380503EF@m...>
• Organization: Propylon
• Reply-to: <bill.dehora@p...>

> From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...] 
>
> 2. The whole notion of my client's Registry is to create a 
> centralized, heavyweight data pool where clients go to find 
> the who, what, and where of services.  UDDI has the same 
> centralized, heavyweight mentality. This is not harmonious 
> with the Web.

Yes and no. DNS is centralized, after a fashion.

 
> 6. "Since there is not a central registry to look for 
> services, how do I locate services in a RDDL-based 
> architecture?"  Use a search engine!  

What's decentralized about a search engine?

The Web architecture is based on client/server. It's designed for a
client to GET a document from one place, that place being the origin
server. I think the web is more centralized than you give it credit for.


Bill de hÓra 
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Propylon
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