continuing registry discussions...

[Tony Linde]

> Besides the ongoing discussion of registry requirements and use cases, we 
> plan to discuss more possible specifications for identifiers, that I think 
> would benefit from international scrutiny.  (I can summarize to this list 
> the discussion we had on this topic at this week's telecon.)  Do you think 
> it would be appropriate to have that discussion on this list, or should we 
> solidify our ideas internally a bit before presenting it to this forum? I 
> would prefer the former, but I don't want to be a litter bug.  

I also prefer the former. IDs are pertinent to the registry. Perhaps
those interested in the ID issue should also join this list. We could
keep the discussions going here and US-VO people could break out to their
own list(s) to discuss specifics of the US-VO implementation.

Cheers,
Tony.

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:39:37 -0600 (CST), "Ray Plante"
<rplante at poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu> said:
> > this is good - but can I suggest that people try to distinguish between
> > US-VO specific discussions and generic IVOA registry issues ? I have
> > found some of the last few days discussion even more confusing than I
> > usually do .... then when I noticed that messages said things like
> > "further to my point in the telecon ..."  or "thanks for the use-cases
> > Fred" etc, I began to understand why it was so hard to follow ...
> 
> Good idea, Andy.  I thought I should clarify a bit...the current stage of 
> our discussion has been at the level of requirements and specifications, 
> and I think it's fair to say that every idea floated at this point is a 
> potential IVOA issue.  We may get to a point where details are more 
> specific to particular projects--perhaps when we start to prototype 
> things--and it might be helpful to split things off.  When you think 
> we're getting to that point, do let us know.  For now, we've been finding 
> the cross-project discussion useful.  
> 
> So NVO/US-VO-ers: Don't be afraid to use a salutation like the one I just
> used to temporarily narrow the discussion.  Stuff specific to our
> telecons, we'll keep on the us-vo metadata list.
> 
> Besides the ongoing discussion of registry requirements and use cases, we 
> plan to discuss more possible specifications for identifiers, that I
> think 
> would benefit from international scrutiny.  (I can summarize to this list 
> the discussion we had on this topic at this week's telecon.)  Do you
> think 
> it would be appropriate to have that discussion on this list, or should
> we 
> solidify our ideas internally a bit before presenting it to this forum? 
> I 
> would prefer the former, but I don't want to be a litter bug.  
> 
> cheers,
> Ray
> 
> 
> 
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