UDDI

Universal Description, Discover, and Integration (UDDI) standard is a global Internet list/registry of businesses based on XML. Its goal is to provide a platform-independent, open framework for transactions across the Internet. The UDDI is an open industry initiative that is sponsored by OASIS which is a non-profit, international consortium that creates interoperable industry specifications based on public standards such as XML and SGML.

• The UDDI facilitates the businesses to publish service listings and interact with each other and define how the services or software applications interact over the Internet. A UDDI business registration primarily includes the address, contact, and known identifiers, the industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies and the technical specifications about the services exposed by the business.
  
• The UDDI is integrated into the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) standard as a key component of the web services infrastructure.
  

DPM - The Business Architects @ Quadrobay