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-----Original Message-----
From: Farrukh S. Najmi [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:26 AM
To: David RR Webber (XML)
Cc:
Subject: Re: [regrep] Should IBM being working with us on this?
My response to the blog may be found here:
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/5208-10536-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=33251&messageID=610630&start=-1>
David RR Webber (XML) wrote:
> FYI. But the recent developments the past week on rr-dev on using
> OMAR with simpler GUI tools - maybe what IBM needs here? Sometimes a
> simple breakthrough can make all the difference in adoption...
>
> I would suggest some dialogue could be critical - especially given
> IBMs commit to regrep for IHE/XDS - aligning on the one secure
> registry base would be a power play for them...
>
> DW
>
> IBM Calls for New SOA Registry Standard Joe McKendrick, ZDNet Blog
>
> IBM spokespeople are saying that the UDDI standard for registries
> isn't cutting it, and the "time is now" for a new registry standard
> more focused on today's SOA realities. In the meantime, IBM will be
> offering a proprietary solution. In a new report in ITWeek, IBM
> managers state that SOAs have stretched the Universal Description,
> Discovery and Integration (UDDI) web services standard to the limit,
> and that it's time for a new standard.
>
> Burton Group's Anne Thomas Manes had just issued a report that IBM's
> WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
> (WSRR) 6.0.1 doesn't fully support UDDI, the commonly accepted
> standard behind SOA registries. IBM, however, says that UDDI was
> originally designed for Web services, which invoke point-to-point
> connections across the network. (In fact, it was designed to be the
"Yellow Pages"
> of the e-business world.)
>
> But what enterprises need now is a registry standard that addresses
> the building-block, enterprise approach of SOA, Big Blue says. SOAs
> require different information about services than do Web services, IBM
> claimed. According to Sunil Murthy, a manager for WebSphere Service
> Registry and Repository at IBM's Software Group, UDDI will not allow
> for role-based access to services, does not let companies manage a
> service's life cycle to enable governance, and does not allow for
> services to be searched. The IBM representatives quoted in the article
> could not predict what a new registry standard would or should look
> like, but said vendors should take their time in sorting things out.
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=864
> See also Burton:
> http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26
> _gci1252107,00.html
>
> "The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472 B.C.)
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Regards,
Farrukh
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