Advertisement and Discovery of Services (ADS) - proposal from IBM to allow web service providers to advertise the availability of their services (not adopted by any formal standards bodies)
Discovery of Web Services (DISCO) - represents the current thinking with regard to discovery of services within Microsoft, July 2000 (not adopted by any formal standards bodies)
Electronic Business XML (ebXML) - United Nations CEFACT/OASIS initiative to create an open public XML-based infrastructure enabling the global use of electronic business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner by all parties (MIME component for message packaging is not based on XML)
Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee - purpose of the UBL TC is to develop a standard library of XML business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.) by taking an already existing library of XML schemas as a starting point and modifying it to incorporate the best features of other existing XML business libraries
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) - initiative started by IBM, Ariba and Microsoft to enabled businesses to discover each other and define how they interact over the Internet and share information in a global registry architecture
jUDDI - Java-base open source implementation of a UDDI registry and client code
eXtensible Markup Language/Electronic Data Interchange (XML/EDI) - framework to exchange different types of data so that the information can be searched, decoded, manipulated, and displayed consistently and correctly by first implementing EDI dictionaries and extending the vocabulary via on-line repositories to include business language, rules and objects