IVOA Identifiers Working Draft

[Ray Plante]

Hi Marco,

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Marco C. Leoni wrote:
>     even after all the "stream", still I don't understand why we need to 
> take care of something that is not registered.
> Does this mean that there will be a registry for non-registered resources?
> 
> An  Authority can obviously create as many private ResIDs  as it 
> prefers, and when it decides to publish those resources then  it needs 
> to make the IDs unique VO compliant identifiers.

Perhaps I've made a mountain out of a mole hill.  This is in response to 
the concern that the assignment of global identifiers should in 
principle be independent of any registry.  The suggested change simply 
comes down to removing the guarantee that an IVOA ResourceID is registered 
in a registry somewhere.  Is this consistant with what you just said?

cheers,
Ray