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[link|http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/29/020729hnuddioasis.xml|OASIS.org swallows UDDI.org]

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ALONG WITH A new address, the UDDI specification is undergoing something of a facelift.

Standards body OASIS on Tuesday will subsume UDDI.org, the consortium driving the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) technology that forms the foundation of Web services directories. OASIS on Tuesday also will formally introduce the third iteration of UDDI, with a new focus on internal corporate deployments.

When it was first introduced, UDDI was hailed as an online global yellow pages that would indiscriminately connect businesses, regardless of infrastructure.

"That global anonymous yellow pages concept was a straw man because it was never a good idea," said Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst at ZapThink, a research firm specializing in Web services, in Waltham, Mass. "Clearly, UDDI has much more appeal within the enterprise and within established groups of business partners."

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Doug M