James,
In meeting with you and noting your keynote presentations
I know you have always stressed both your personal, and
Microsoft's commitment to standards use and development.
Of course the cynic would note that one loves standards
because there are so many to choose from.
However - clearly your and Microsoft's commitment is
to the fostering and use standards that go beyond the
normal and instead reach to higher ground to effect
significant and ground breaking advances to our
cultural use of computer technology.
One such recent effort is the ebXML initiative, and so
I have always felt that Microsoft would be well served
by not just joining, but being able to provide their
trademark high level of authoritive intellectual
contributions to drive this work forward.
This past week has seen Microsoft annouce its
leadership of the UDDI work. At first glance this
appears to be a significant event, but as one
delves into the details one finds this is merely
providing a 'rudder' and that ebXML is clearly the
'ship'.
That the UDDI work is 'bottom up' in the business
process - starting at the point of discovering a
possible interchange partner. Once established
then one needs payloads, transport, metadata
definitions, business rules, business process, and
so forth. The ebXML work is focused in these
'top down' areas.
Hence it is quite clear that the UDDI work and the
ebXML work are set to meet in the middle, if they
have not already done so.
I would therefore like to ask Microsoft to announce,
that following on from their work in UDDI, that this will
now become an extension of the ebXML work and
linked at the points of contact at the ebXML TPA
and RegRep work.
In your capacity as XML Director for Microsoft this
would indeed position Microsoft to drive this work
forward. It would also allow all the other participants
in UDDI and ebXML (practically all the main vendors
are in both) to synergize their work efforts.
Regards,
DW.
N.American Chair, XML/edi Group and
Co-chair ebXML Registry/Repository WG.
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