ownedAuthority element

Matthew J. Graham mjg at cacr.caltech.edu
Tue Apr 5 14:39:23 PDT 2005


> Hi,


> That said, I thought I would throw one more thought into this 
> discussion
> before we all sleep on it.  I was planning to suggest that we drop the
> <managedAuthority> element from the Registry type; instead, we would 
> put a
> reference to the managing Registry in the Authority type.  The main 
> reason
> is that it is currently clumsy to maintain.  Each time a new Authority 
> ID
> is defined, not only must an Authority record be created, but the 
> existing
> Registry record must be updated.  If we instead put a 
> <managingRegistry>
> (or <homeRegistry>) element into the Authority record, no other updates
> are necessary.

Grrr, it took me some effort to implement this in Carnivore and now you 
want to drop it?

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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