Newly registered project on Source Forge, " Web Services Exchange Point with Extensible Points Of Presence (WSEPEPOP)", aims to serve as a platform for web service publishers to access and use something like the Internet Exchange Point used by ISPs but in the context of web service points of presence with the option of using object brokering, application servers, local messaging, authentication, communication back-pipes to publisher's own systems, local persistence and database mechanisms, business process orchestration/choreography, based partly on wsdl/uddi/soap/bpel under the hood.
This will free web service publisher from exposing local port bindings as well as allow for new opportunities in integration and inter-enterprise services. Web service publishers might also off load simple processing to these exchange points and increase method response times as well a decrease network and compute loads on own systems.
