
<pre>OGC meeting with Microsoft re UDDI (2/15/2001) - short summary. </pre>
<pre>* intent of UDDI consortium
  - desire to be the DNS for web services 
  - 15 core companies to host replicated registries 
  - free access to registry </pre>
<pre>* scope of UDDI interface
  - application interface 
  - not HMI oriented 
  - non-sector specific </pre>
<pre>* version 2 UDDI
  - currently in editing committee (15)
  - next is full consortium 
  - release of Version 2 in March 
  - V3 in December 
  - a release contains no more than what can be implemented in 90 days </pre>
<pre>* geospatial in UDDI
  - UDDI will not address sector specific issues, e.g., geospatial
  - the only thing in UDDI re geospatial will be ISO 3166 country code 
  - will have mechanism for pointing to sector taxonomy 
  - they are working with Geo team in Microsoft 


* layers of service providers for a sector 
  - layer extends core by adding info to core return results 
  - the existence of an additional layer visible in core 
  - who would host a geospatial UDDI registry? </pre>
<pre>* next steps 
  - version 2 available for WMT 3
  - to join consortium: non-disclosure agreement, not cost.
  - OGC could not extend UDDI NDA to members 
  - individual members would join if they wanted to review V3 before release </pre>
<pre>* Attendees Doug Nebert Eliot Christian George Percivall Microsoft: 
  - Chris Kurt, Uddi 
  - Eric Kramer, nasa sales 
  - Marjorie Reynolds, E-gov 
  - Holgar? Bell?, Uddi

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