RofR

[Wil O'Mullane]

just to say our relational system will store the voresource part of a 
record but may ignore the Extyension part. So it could still have record of ALL entries..
If someone had a different schema not extending rvoresource we would not store it at all

wil
> > certain information must be included (VOResource) but whatever is added
> > beyond that - the registry is unaware of it. If someone stores a 
> > record with
> > some schema extension that only one piece of software knows about then 
> > only
> > that piece of software will use the data stored under that extension.
> 
> I disagree: what is a registry = something that can store records 
> (conceptual) but how something is stored is an implementation detail 
> and that necessarily means that the only thing that can be stored is 
> what is supported, i.e. this particular record can be stored because I 
> have implemented a storage model for it.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew