RofR

[Tony Linde]

> OK my language is loose here - what I mean is searching on 
> the records 
> that belong to a particular AuthorityID - this is the basic unit of 
> ownership of records, and is the smallest unit that we can attach 
> diffent management functionalities to within a registry.

Thanks Paul. But I would still maintain that the authID is meaningless.
Searching for records that belong to a particular authID only gives you
records that belong to a particular authID. Any rationale for grouping
records under an authID is purely down to the person/org which owns that
authID and cannot be assumed to be the same rationale for any other authID.
If you know the rationale for a given authID and want to use that as part of
a query then you can do so, but if you already know that much, you probably
also know the specific resource you want to use anyway.

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Harrison [mailto:pharriso at eso.org] 
> Sent: 13 April 2005 09:55
> To: Tony Linde
> Cc: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: Re: RofR
> 
> Tony Linde wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> OK my language is loose here - what I mean is searching on 
> the records 
> that belong to a particular AuthorityID - this is the basic unit of 
> ownership of records, and is the smallest unit that we can attach 
> diffent management functionalities to within a registry.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Harrison
> ESO Garching
> www.eso.org
>