Resources = services!

[Tony Linde]

Following on from Ray's response to my RSM comments, I'd like to make a
proposal...

The *Resource Registry* should only store details of resources which can be
invoked and can perform actions of benefit to the caller (in general I would
imagine such resources to be web or grid services but might be cgi scripts
or other invokable scripts - applet, servlet?).

Other types of registry might be created (as with the AstroGrid Community
registry and MySpace registry) but these should not clutter up the resource
registry. I don't really want the resource registry filled with the name of
every astronomer in the world - I *would* like that somewhere but not in the
place where all my jobs go to get resource informnation.

Cheers,
Tony. 

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