IVOA Identifiers Working Draft

[Ray Plante]

Hi Tony,

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tony Linde wrote:
> A few comments on this wrt the sample registry based on the new schema
> (adil-v0.8.1.xml).
> 
> Neither resource in the sample (one Organisation and one DataCollection) has
> a ResourceKey within their identifiers. I think ResourceKey should be
> mandatory in all resources except one which we should create for, say,
> Authority: this could hold any info about the authority including a pointer
> to an organisation.

I went back and forth on this one.  (What I really needed was a second 
opinion.)  I'll change this.

> The document also suggests that only people from a 'naming authority' can
> add resources to a registry. In my mind, a registry should have a default
> AuthorityID so that anyone could add a resource to it whether they are from
> a recognised naming authority or not.
> 
> A registry could be set up to refuse registrations from non-authority
> personnel but this should not be the default, I think.

Agreed.  I'll put a clarify remark in the WD.  

cheers,
Ray