Registry discussion

[Tony Linde]

You're absolutely right, Arnold. But at least convergence among a few will
hopefully leave less for others to disagree about. Now that it has died down
(until people read my comments on Ray's message :) ), it is worth adding
your own comments, either as a new take on the issues you disagree with, or
as a comment to Ray's summary (http://ivoa.net/forum/registry/0470.htm) or
my comment on that (http://ivoa.net/forum/registry/0472.htm).

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnold Rots [mailto:arots at head-cfa.harvard.edu] 
> Sent: 15 September 2003 13:52
> To: Tony Linde
> Cc: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: Registry discussion
> 
> 
> That means shutting certain people out of the discussion 
> until it has died down.  My problem was that I wanted to 
> react to one of Ray's posts, but by the time I got around to 
> it, there had been a dozen or so other messages on the 
> subject, so I just gave up, rather than turn it into a worse 
> cacaphony.
> 
> The discussion between a limited number of high-volume 
> responders may create the false impression of convergence 
> when they approach consensus among themselves.  There may 
> still be many opinions on the sidelines that have not been 
> thrown into the discussion.
> 
>   - Arnold
> 
> Tony Linde wrote:
> > I understand the difficulty of keeping up with a wide 
> ranging and fast 
> > moving discussion but I personally welcome this sort of 
> activity - it 
> > is more likely to get us to a state where we can produce a proposal 
> > which captures most people's ideas and attracts fewer 
> objections than 
> > if just one person (or one project) sits down and develops it.
> > 
> > Those who do not have the time or inclination to get 
> involved in the 
> > mailing list discussion can wait until the flurry dies 
> down, read the 
> > two dozen or so messages and then make a considered comment 
> - as I did 
> > with the NVO metadata list messages which then generated 
> the traffic 
> > here.
> > 
> > The end result *will* be a summary, either wholly or as part of a 
> > working draft. And people can wait to make their comments 
> then if they 
> > wish.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Tony.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Pierre Fernique
> > > Sent: 15 September 2003 09:58
> > > To: registry at ivoa.net
> > > Subject: Registry discussion
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Clive Page wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Arnold Rots wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >>For people who don't do VO full-time it's impossible to
> > > keep up with
> > > >>this stream-of-consciousness kind of e-mail discussion :-(
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > My sentiments exactly.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > My sentiments also.
> > > Pierre Fernique
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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