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The attempts to make UDDI useful and worthwhile keep getting more and more desperate. The latest is Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) “a method for identifying any resource–from a Web service to a particular file–across different network domains, applications and transport protocols.” I don’t see what’s new here other then including UDDI into the mix — something that should have happened in the first place with URLs.