This round table discussion will focus on an exploration of the challenges associated with provisioning services on demand and what is possible today with known trading relationships and services. Moving towards dynamic search and discovery of services requires extensions to current standards such as WSDL and UDDI. This roundtable will explore opportunities with distributed search and defining the pre-conditions and expected outcomes of accessing and consuming a business service. This discussion will also cover issues and opportunities with management of distributed service level agreements and the role of trust with third party agreements and support for automated tools to provide for a business interoperability policy framework.

Groups of customers and vendors will naturally have different interests based upon a characterization of how web services are being implemented in each organization (i.e. data aggregation, portal integration to back end systems of trading partners, supplier enablement, business services provisioning and consumption) and the technology roadmap of the vendors.

We will explore synergies among the various customer needs and vendor capabilities and emerging standards with the objective of sharing best practices and lessons learned through implementation experiences.

The outcomes of the session will include a report outlining the gap analysis of customer needs vs. vendor capabilities relative to eCo II, Commerce Net's reference architecture for interoperability. The report will also include a synthesis of requirements for a commercial business services registry and recommendations for extensions to web services standards such as UDDI and WSDL.