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Norbert Bollow <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Abdabi, the GNU Service Discovery System
System name: abdabi
Type: GNU

Description:
The goal of Abdabi is to be a service discovery system for DotGNU.

A major design goal is to make it useful not only for webservices
but also for other locating other kinds of commercial and
non-commercial service offerings.  At the core is an RDF-based web of
information, which contains data on various companies and their
service offerings.  Everyone is free to submit additional information
to this semantic web, such as recommendations, accounts of (both
positive and negative) experiences.  The issues of spam and
potentially wrong or misleading information are adddressed by a web of
trust.

The Abdabi system does not have a single central server. Quite on the
contrary, everyone is free to operate an Abdabi server. When the data
in a server\'s local database does not allow to answer a user\'s query
in a satisfactory manner, the server can query other servers for
additional information. (Such queries from other Abdabi servers must
be answered using only information in the local database.) Each server
may have its own rules for evaluating recommendations and the web of
trust.

This server is a webservice (implemented in Python for GNU/Linux and
GNU/Hurd systems) running in the DotGNU Execution Environment (DGEE).

Three User Interface (client) components are planned:

    * A UI component (implemented in Python for GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd
      systems) which allows users to access the Abdabi system
      with a browser via HTTP.

    * A UI component which provides a native UI for the Gnome system.

    * A UI component which implements an XWT \"projectable\" user
      interface.  This UI will be simple enough to fit on the small
      screens of mobile telephones.

Abdabi is currently in the design phase, I don\'t have any code to show yet.

Other Software Required:
DotGNU Portable.Net
DotGNU Execution Environment (DGEE)
Goldwater (a GNU package now)
GNOME
some C# wrapper for GNOME (still needs to be selected, I\'m discussing the 
options with RMS)
Python

Other Comments:
RMS has already dubbed this a GNU project