definition of registry

[Andrew Lawrence]

Q: how do you tell when a lawyer is lying ?
A : their lips are moving

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Linde [mailto:ael at star.le.ac.uk] 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 17:57
>To: 'IVOA Registry mailing list'
>Subject: RE: definition of registry
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>> Registry: (noun) a dynamically updatable database containing 
>> metadata about and contained by resources available to a 
>> grid. A single registry may be one of a network of mutually 
>> queriable registries.
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>What does 'and contained by' mean? 
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>> I think I must have been a lawyer in a past life.
>
>Nah! 250,000 words too short!
>
>Cheers,
>Tony. 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Elizabeth Auden [mailto:eca at mssl.ucl.ac.uk] 
>> Sent: 30 April 2003 17:32
>> To: 'IVOA Registry mailing list'
>> Subject: definition of registry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Does the IVOA have an official (or at least agreed) 
>> definition of "registry"?  If so, what is it? I was asked for 
>> a definition by Prof. Len Culhane, the MSSL lab director.
>> 
>> This is what I have:
>> 
>> Registry: (noun) a dynamically updatable database containing 
>> metadata about and contained by resources available to a 
>> grid. A single registry may be one of a network of mutually 
>> queriable registries.
>> 
>> I think I must have been a lawyer in a past life.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Elizabeth
>> 
>> 
>> 
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