Anne Thomas Manes writes, "Way back in April 2005, Systinet (now a part of HP) announced the Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF), which proposed to define standard formats and practices to enable interoperability among SOA infrastructure ecosystem products (service platforms, mediation systems, and management systems) via UDDI. At the time Systinet recruited about a dozen SOA infrastructure vendors to participate in a partnership  to implement support for GIF in their products.

With PI 7.1 is it possible to publish services to the Service Registry (SR) directly from the Enterprise Service (ES) Builder and Integration Directory. The publishing functionality will allow developers and Business Process Experts (BPXs) to publish the services interfaces to the SR or UDDI. The UDDI will then contain a global list of all the services, which is implemented or at some point will be implemented.

To show the different ways to define services, it is necessary to see how they can be published. Services can be provided the following ways.