<div class="content">Significant milestones in&nbsp;the development and adoption of UDDI include:<br /><br />June 2006<br /><strong>UDDI XML.org Focus Area Launched</strong><br />The UDDI home on the web is relaunched with enhanced content and community collaboration features.<br /><br />Dec 2005<br /><a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/webservices/uddi/">UDDI Universal Business Registry (UBR) Closes</a><br />Completing the transition towards an enterprise focus in UDDI v3, the UDDI Operators Council announced that the public Universal Business Registry (UBR) was to be discontinued on 12 January 2006.<br /><br />Feb 2005<br /><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_02_03_05.php">UDDI Version 3.0.2 Ratified as OASIS Standard</a><br />This significant update provides key capabilities for enterprise-level deployment, including registry interaction. Its feature definitions are stable and backwards-compatible with earlier versions of the standard.<br /><br />Nov 2004<br /><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_11_17_04.php">Users and Vendors Demonstrate Support for UDDI OASIS Standard at Gartner Web Services Summit</a><br />Representatives from The Hartford and Charles Schwab presented details on their company's implementation of UDDI registries as core foundation components of their SOA. OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee members staged a live demo incorporating UDDI product offerings from IBM, Oracle, SAP, Systinet, and others in a business scenario.<br /><br />May 2003<br /><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_05_20_03.php">UDDI Version 2.0 Ratified as OASIS Standard</a><br />OASIS members formally ratify UDDI v2, with features that include business relationships and external taxonomy validation.<br /><br />Jul 2002<br /><a href="http://uddi.org/news/uddi_news_07_30_02.html">UDDI.org Transitions Work to OASIS</a> <br />OASIS members form technical committee to advance the specification and to promote a consistent, unified approach to the development and implementation of UDDI.<br /><br />Aug 2000<br /><a href="http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2113510/group-develops-xml-yellow-pages">UDDI.org Formed</a><br />Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft jointly propose a set of XML-based interfaces to maintain an online database of business Web services.<br /><br /><br />