RofR

[Tony Linde]

Hi Paul,

> that is what I have been saying in this thread - it is 
> whether you can 
> search on an authorityID that is important

I don't understand what you mean by searching on authID. An authID is
meaningless - searching on it is meaningless. What do you think this is
going to give you?

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Harrison [mailto:pharriso at eso.org] 
> Sent: 12 April 2005 17:04
> To: Tony Linde
> Cc: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: RofR
> 
> Tony Linde wrote:
> >>  - a RoR can be created that could be used by an 
> intelligent agent to 
> >>discover which registries that it wanted to query
> > 
> > 
> > How can it decide which registries to query - knowing that 
> a registry 
> > exists and covers certain authorities is meaningless from a 
> query point of view.
> > You still won't know what resources it contains if it is 
> less than a 
> > full list - if it is a full list you just query it anyway, 
> you don't 
> > need any other registry.
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>  - 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.
> > 
> > 
> > Which is why we don't need the managed/owned distinction anymore.
> 
> so you are now saying that that term managed is meaningless?
> > 
> > 
> >>  - 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.
> > 
> > 
> > You've mixed up two concepts. Managing and searching are 
> completely distinct
> > concepts, neither to do with the other.
> > 
> > We *do* need to distinguish which registries support searching.
> 
> that is what I have been saying in this thread - it is 
> whether you can 
> search on an authorityID that is important
> 
> -- 
> Paul Harrison
> ESO Garching
> www.eso.org
>