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Most of my critique of Farrukh's FAQ statement is
grammatical.
My comments/changes are in red. I would have used
"strikeout" but my Outlook program has disabled it for some reason. Hence,
I've included Farrukh's original beneath mine for reference. Thanks for
putting up with a lurker's comments.
--Nicholas
<Nicholas>
The ebXML
Registry is a constituent of the Electronic Business
using XML (ebXML) standard, which develops standards and protocols to support
business-to-business (B2B) operations. The ebXML Registry TC has defined a
general purpose registry specification*, known as
ebXML Reg/Rep, for publishing and discovering shareable** content and metadata***. The ebXML Reg/Rep is both a registry and a
repository.
UDDI, managed by the UDDI Spec TC, is focused as a registry
service for Web services and its artifacts. [I don't believe
it's wise for Reg/Rep to attempt a definition of UDDI in this particular
space....leave that for the ebXML FAQ. I'd strike this entire
sentence.]
UDDI and ebXML Registries
may be used both within the organization and across
organizations.
*"service" is a loaded word these days.
**"arbitrary"
connotes whimsical or meaningless; I don't think it's in our interest to state
that we deal with "arbitrary" information. However, I do believe one of
the most pertinent aspects of the ebXML Registry is that it shares information,
and you don't mention that here.
***Is there a requirement somewhere that
metadata registered in an ebXML registry be "standardized"? I don't
believe so, except to the extent that it be useful to at least two parties, and
they agree on both the semantic meaning and structural integrity of such
metadata. However, I couldn't think of a modifier that encapsulated that
idea.
</Nicholas>
<Farrukh>
ebXML Registry
is a constituant part of the Electronic Business
using XML (ebXML) standard, which develops standards and protocols to support
business-to-business (B2B) operations. The ebXML Registry TC has defined
a general purpose registry service for publishing and discovery of arbitrary
content and standardized metadata, known as ebXML Reg/Rep. ebXML Reg/Rep is both
a registry and a repository.
UDDI, managed by the UDDI Spec
TC, is focused as a
registry service for Web
services and
its artifacts.
Both UDDI and ebXML Registry may be
used within the organization and across organizations.
</Farrukh>
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Thomas Manes
[mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday,
January 14, 2004 7:12 AM
To: Farrukh Najmi;
Cc: Luc Cl幦ent
Subject: Re: [regrep] UDDI FAQ
entry on ebXML Registry
Farrukh,
Your characterization of UDDI
is inaccurate. UDDI is a general-purpose
registry. (We have a technical note
that explains how to use UDDI as a
registry for ebXML services.) It can also
be used to register Web sites,
Non-Web applications, schemas, namespaces,
software assets, non-electronic
services, etc. I know a number of users that
use UDDI as a software asset
management system.
Obviously there is a
tremendous amount of overlap between the capabilities
of the two registries.
The one significant difference between the two is
that RegRep is both a
registry and a repository, and UDDI is only a registry.
Anne
At
10:02 AM 1/14/2004, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>Team,
>
>The
UDDI TC has the following question in their FAQ:
>
>8. How does UDDI
compare with the work of the OASIS ebXML Registry TC?
>
>I was
helping Luc scrub the answer to the question. With
Luc's
>permission
>I post the latest answer below.
>The
description below seems reasonable to me. Does any one have any
comments?
>
>My thanks to Luc for his responsiveness on this
subject.
>
>BTW maybe we should consider having the exact same
question and answer
>in
>our FAQ (with Luc's
permission)?
>
>--
>Regards,
>Farrukh
>
>>ebXML
Registry is a constituant part of the Electronic Business
using
>>XML
>>(ebXML) standard, which develops standards and
protocols to support
>>business-to-business (B2B) operations. The ebXML
Registry TC has defined
>>a general purpose registry service for
publishing and discovery of
>>arbitrary content and standardized
metadata, known as ebXML Reg/Rep.
>>ebXML Reg/Rep is both a registry
and a repository.
>>
>>UDDI, managed by the UDDI Spec TC, is
focused as a registry service
>>for
>>Web services and its
artifacts.
>>
>>Both UDDI and ebXML Registry may be used
within the organization and
>>across
organizations.
>
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