RofR

[Matthew J. Graham]

Hi,

> 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

Yes, but a search against some of those extension parts will not then 
work so you are not fully searchable :-^
I think having a list of supported schema per registry gives us the 
graduation that is required instead of trying to use binary categories 
like full/not full which plainly do not work.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

> 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