"As the adoption of Web services by businesses worldwide continues to grow, it's becoming more important to effectively provide reliable and standards-based discovery of these services. Along with advances in the standards for management and security of Web services, the latest enhancements to UDDI will help enterprises address these challenges and will, therefore, promote broader adoption of Web services and drive development of business solutions that take advantage of interoperability between multiple Web services."

"The UDDI registry model is one of the central elements of an interoperable framework that ensures the effective interaction of services in a service oriented architecture. By enabling policy-based distribution and management of enterprise Web services, a UDDI registry can deliver significant business value.

"UDDI continues to serve an important role in the deployment of Services Oriented Architectures. IBM will extend support for UDDI Version 3 in the WebSphere Application Server. The security enhancements in UDDI combined with the industry leading enterprise capabilities in WebSphere will be especially important for customers using UDDI to improve reuse and simplify discovery of Web services across their IT infrastructure."

"The OASIS UDDI Technical Committee has taken the time to precisely articulate the business case for UDDI. They've also actively consulted and collaborated with related standards efforts, such as the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Technical Committee, UN/CEFACT's ebXML Core Components Working Group, and the OASIS Web Services for Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) Technical Committee."

"Building on the enterprise-readiness of UDDI V2, the enhancements that went into UDDI V3, such as the support of XML digital signatures for data integrity and authenticity and a pub/sub-mechanism for change notifications address commonly requested requirements and make UDDI the canonical candidate for enterprise services registries. The next version of SAP NetWeaver, the open integration and application platform for mySAP Business Suite and SAP xApp composite applications, will support UDDI V3.

"The UDDI v3.0.2 OASIS Standard represents another significant milestone in UDDI's evolution. It delivers key capabilities for enterprise-level deployment, providing different responses depending upon the security, transport, or quality of service as defined by business rules or taxonomies."