Registry services

[Tony Linde]

Can I ask whether we should mandate a format for registry services?

AstroGrid will provide its registry service as a web service. Is this the
same for other projects? Given that the registry is something new, can we
mandate that all VO registries must be web services? Or at least must
provide a web service interface which meets our minimum standards for
methods served up? This does not stop anyone providing other interfaces and
other methods for internal project use.

Cheers,
Tony. 

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