[Ops] Note draft: "Operational Identification"

[Markus Demleitner]

Hi Ops,

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:53:21AM +0100, Pierre Fernique wrote:
> Le 09/03/2021 à 11:17, Mark Taylor a écrit :
> > Given that the distinction is evidently a matter of debate,
> > maybe Pierre is right, we should collapse these to a single term -
> > "check" or "test".
> +1 😁
> > > "mirror" as this other term I don't like too much, as I think it is a
> > > different use case than harvest.  I can't think of a major
> > > operational reason to tell them apart, though, so having an umbrella
> > > term for both would still seem reasonable.
> > "copy"?
> 
> +2

Ok, test/copy it is, then, unless someone protests loudly.

> Concerning the modification of the User-Agent. I think that the simple
> suggestion to update a table on the IVOA site of the AUs used by clients as
> proposed by Mark (perhaps with an implementation date) will allow us to
> adjust the modifications on the computation of statistics according to the
> methods used by each data provider. In any case, for the method used by the
> CDS (agents distributed on the different servers), this will be ok.

Should the SoftId wiki page be mentioned in the note then?  Anyone up
for a PR?

          -- Markus