ESDS -- Discussion of the ESDS (Extensible Supplychain Discovery Service)
About ESDS	English (USA)
This list has been closed. ESDS has been chartered to architect and define a protocol for Discovery Services. Discovery Services at its core offers to authenticated and authorized users the means to discover sources of information for a particular object. Discovery Services can be implemented as a decentralized directory of resources indexed by a shared identifier. Discovery Services need to be deployable in both closed networks as well as open and global networks such as Internet. ESDS will develop interfaces for users of Discovery Services as well as an interface for peer-to-peer communication among Discovery Services. ESDS will develop interfaces for publishing data, submitting onetime queries, and registering for standing queries. ESDS should support utilization of a trusted external identity management service for Authentication. ESDS should enable configuration of Authorization and Access Control for publishing clients. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the ESDS Archives.
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