RofR

[Paul Harrison]

It seems to me that the most important point from this discussion is 
that as long as that the concept of Owned and Managed is expressed in 
the schema (which it is *not* at the moment) then all of the models can 
be accommodated.

  - a RoR can be created that could be used by an intelligent agent to 
discover which registries that it wanted to query
  - a private "publishing" registry could be supported, by the "full" 
registry claiming to be the "owner" and the rest of the world would be 
none the wiser.
  - public "publishing" registries (which seem to be desired by the 
majority on this list) could be supported by the publishing registry 
acknowledging ownership, so that people know where to go to make updates 
to records, but not declaring itself to be a "managing" registry for the 
authorityID, which is a statment that it does not want to service searches.

It is the statement of this last use case that makes the term managed 
inappropriate to me.


-- 
Paul Harrison
ESO Garching
www.eso.org