UDDI ; What's that?

At work I've been been given a task to make a "list" over our web service partners. This list will in turn be called by the business logic in our system, through some API, for easy access to our web service providers. At least this is how I understood it. I've also been told to use UDDI to accomplish this task.

Since I don't know the first thing about UDDI, I hope someone can at least explain the basics to me! Is UDDI a server I install and configure? Or is it an API I use? Are there any tutorials I can read?

Someone please help!

Google it!
Anyways, just guessing... http://www.uddi.org

I have of course googled it.....

Anyone got some practical experience setting up a UDDI server?

This is from my Coldfusion 7 books.

"...and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) for locating published Web Services in public or private registries."

Then it later says:

"UDDI defines a SOAP-based web service for locating WSDL documents. UDDI was proposed by IBM and Microsoft and is supported by many other software vendors. Public UDDI registries allow you to publish your web services and query existing WSDL documents.."

"... for more information on UDDI, visit http://www.uddi.org . To search existing UDDI registries, visit http://uddi.microsoft.com , http://www.ibm.com/services/uddi , and http://www.xmethods.net/ .."

Hope that helps something.