What is the difference between XDS, XDS.a, and XDS.b?
This season we created a new XDS profile that brings XDS up to date with respect to Web Services and the Registry standard. We seriously struggled to create a naming convention that would be clear to all readers. The goals were to be able to differentiate between the old XDS and the new version of XDS AND still have a term that referred to the general idea of XDS. Basically, how to arrange the names so that both the business/marketing folks understand that we are simply growing XDS and at the same time have the technical people follow the details so there codes can follow the profile details. The result is the following usage of the XDS name: XDS now refers to both XDS.a and XDS.b ( a family of profiles ) XDS.a is what you thought of as XDS last year. XDS.b is a new profile which introduces: • Updated web services including the use of WS-Addressing • Updated Registry standard (ebRIM and ebRS 3.0) • Use of MTOM in the Provide and Register transaction (and in the new WS Retrieve transact
