  Properties of multiparticle final states produced in the central rapidity
region of small-x deep inelastic scattering (DIS) are discussed. It is pointed
out that these properties contain important information on the nature of the
Pomeron - used for the description of total cross section and diffractive
production in DIS. It is shown that models based on universality of the Pomeron
predict charged particle multiplicities in small-x DIS which are in good
agreement with recent HERA results.
