You are receiving this notice because you registered at one of the IBM
UDDI sites.  The IBM UDDI Business Registry, the IBM UDDI Test
Registry and the IBM UDDI Beta Test Registry web sites will no
longer be available as of January 12, 2006.

In February 2005, the Version 3 of the Universal Description, Discovery
and Integration (UDDI) V3 was approved as an OASIS standard.  Having
achieved that milestone, the companies hosting the UDDI Business
Registry (UBR) evaluated the results of hosting a reference
implementation for the UDDI technology.  Over the past five years, as
Web services applications have matured, the role of UDDI based
registries has also evolved in part based on testing experiences with
UBR.   Registries based on UDDI have been established within enterprises
and organizations and have an important role in Web services business
applications.  The availability of UBR provided valuable validation and
guidance during the early days of UDDI.  Now that the benefits of this
technology have been realized and many organizations have established
their own UDDI registries, the IBM-hosted UBR will be discontinued.

IBM will continue to support UDDI in WebSphere and Rational software
products and tooling. The UDDI support in IBM products is not affected
by this announcement.  Also, you may continue to use the same IBM
profile account and password to log into any other ibm.com web sites or
web applications.

Before January 12, 2006, you will still be able to access any
information from the UDDI sites using the web interfaces or Web service
APIs.  The login pages for the sites are:

IBM UDDI Business Registry: https://uddi.ibm.com/ubr/registry.html
IBM UDDI Test Registry: https://uddi.ibm.com/testregistry/registry.html
IBM UDDI V3 Beta Registry: https://uddi.ibm.com/beta/registry.html

A Frequently Asked Questions document regarding this announcement has
been posted at https://uddi.ibm.com/ubr/ibm_shutdown_faq.html
Questions may be directed to our support email address at
uddisupt@us.ibm.com until January 11, 2006.

Thank you for supporting the UDDI project and providing us with valuable
feedback which allowed us to complete our goal of establishing UDDI as
a mature Web service standard.

Regards,

Andrew Hately
IBM UDDI Business Registry Team