To facilitate the SOA Governance adoption, it would greatly to coalesce around a governance model that covers not less than all SOA related policies, metadata management, control and management of service life cycle, and governance mechanisms that are required to monitor the SOA. Among existing languages to describe services, we quote the standard SoaML, CBDI and USDL. But, this latter best meets our needs.

The Unified Service Description Language is a generic service description language consolidated from SAP Research projects. It aims to provide a way for users to model services from a business and operational point of view and align it with the technical perspective.