Ronald Schemlzer, senior analyst with XML and Web services research firm ZapThink, said that WS-Discovery is geared for limited resource devices and systems for local networks and will will work well with UDDI, which hones in on services across networks.

“The reason for this is that multicast protocols are very ‘chatty,’ which means they can consume a lot of bandwidth as they continue to notify systems that they are available for interaction,” Schmelzer told internetnews.com. “Microsoft [and the others] are intending this to be used as a way to ‘bootstrap’ a device onto the network and then will leverage other protocols (like WS-Eventing, WS-Addressing, WS-Security, and WS-ReliableMessaging) for ongoing system-to-system communication.”

Schmelzer also said WS-Discovery will be complementary to the Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP), standard, which helps music and other digital entertainment content to be accessed from various devices in the home without regard for where the media is stored.

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