What is happening with Internet based Electronic Services?
In June of this year, Universal Description, Discover and Integration (UDDI.org) unveiled version 2.0 of its specification for enhancing the way companies communicate electronically over the Internet. UDDI is a registry that allows businesses to do three things: • Discover each other • Define how they interact • Share this information in an open, global registry The public registries are now operational and backed by more that 280 companies. Microsoft, IBM and Hewlett Packard are running the databases. (After what we hear from the media about their rivalry, it is interesting to note that IBM and Microsoft are working on this project together). UDDI accepts and organizes three types of internet-based information: • White Pages for address, contact and known identifiers • Yellow Pages for industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies • Green Pages for the technical information about the services offered by the business, including references and interfaces to the services a comp
