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Article Excerpt Over the past few years there has been an emergence of registries due to the lack of organization of the World Wide Web. These registries provide a mechanism to centrally organize information in a way that makes it easier for both people and machines to locate the required sources of information.
However, there is also an alarming new trend taking place now, which is the proliferation of registries, each with a different set of data structures, access mechanisms, and expected functionality. At present there are many parallel registry standards, such as UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), ebXML, .NET Passport, Domain Names Services (DNS), and so on. While these standards aren't necessarily exclusive of one another, each has a different function and audience it intends to satisfy.
I propose that these standards, while seemingly useful relative to their tasks, can all be subordinated to a properly...
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