You are receiving this notice because you registered at one of the IBM
UDDI sites. The IBM UDDI Business Registry, the IBM UDDI Test Registry and the
IBM UDDI Beta Test Registry web sites will no longer be available as of
January 12, 2006.
In February 2005, the Version 3 of the Universal Description, Discovery
and Integration (UDDI) V3 was approved as an OASIS standard. Having achieved
that milestone, the companies hosting the UDDI Business Registry (UBR)
evaluated the results of hosting a reference implementation for the UDDI
technology. Over the past five years, as Web services applications have
matured, the role of UDDI based registries has also evolved in part based on
testing experiences with
UBR. Registries based on UDDI have been established within
enterprises
and organizations and have an important role in Web services business
applications. The availability of UBR provided valuable validation and
guidance during the early days of UDDI. Now that the benefits of this
technology have been realized and many organizations have established their
own UDDI registries, the IBM-hosted UBR will be discontinued.
IBM will continue to support UDDI in WebSphere and Rational software
products and tooling. The UDDI support in IBM products is not affected by this
announcement. Also, you may continue to use the same IBM profile account and
password to log into any other ibm.com web sites or web applications.
Before January 12, 2006, you will still be able to access any
information from the UDDI sites using the web interfaces or Web service APIs.
The login pages for the sites are:
IBM UDDI Business Registry:
Questions may be directed to our support email address at
uddisupt@us.ibm.com until January 11, 2006.
Thank you for supporting the UDDI project and providing us with
valuable feedback which allowed us to complete our goal of establishing UDDI
as a mature Web service standard.
Regards,
Andrew Hately
IBM UDDI Business Registry
Team