RofR care and feeding

[Ray Plante]

Hi RWG,

As you know, I've been maintaining the Registry of Registries 
(rofr.ivoa.net) on behalf of the IVOA.  As perhaps only some of you 
know, I will be leaving NCSA for a new position at the US National 
Institute for Standards and Technology.  It would be appropriate to 
find a new home for the RofR.  

The nice thing about the RofR is that it is at its core, simply a 
publishing registry.  I use a simple Perl/Python-base implementation 
for the registry itself.  Attached to it is a validater service used 
for testing and bringing in new registries; this service is a Java 
application that runs on top of Tomcat.  The two are fairly 
independent, so it would not be difficult to use a different registry 
implementation; we would just move the records over. 

I call, therefore, on the Registry Working Group for recommendations 
for how to maintain the RofR going forward as well as call for any who 
would like to volunteer to take up its maintenance.  

As a reminder, the IVOA Note, Registry of Registries, describes the 
purpose and function of this registry.  (There are a few errors, I've 
noticed, but it's mostly good.)

cheers,
Ray