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Subject: RE: Support for External Repository Items



When this Oasis ebXML Registry TC assumed that it would start with the ebXML
v1.0 Specifications, did it also assume the requirements that the ebXML
specifications were drafted against were also valid?  Here is an excerpt
from the ebXML Requirements document for registry and Repository:

[ebXML Requirements v1.04, 19 March 2001, Section 6.32, Lines 422:425]
"...In addition, context with a repository can reference content within
another repository. The concept of a single repository is not scalable, nor
does it promote the idea of a global web..."

If this Oasis ebXML Registry TC assumed these original ebXML Requirements
when it assumed the prior work derived from those requirements, then the
answer is pretty clear, we should allow this.  Were these basic assumptions
of a priori requirements agreed to by his group?

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Gallagher [mailto:LGallagher@nist.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:41 AM
To: regrep@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Support for External Repository Items



Regrep members,

Attached is a short (3-page) issue and position paper that addresses the 
topic of "How should our Registry handle the registration of repository 
items that do not reside under the control of Registry Services?"

One point of view is that all repository items are under the control of the 
Registry, so we don't have a problem.

Another point of view is that we can and should be able to create 
RegistryEntry instances that describe a repository item that resides
elsewhere.

The attached 3-page document discusses this issue, evaluates how our 
Registry specifications handle both of these notions, and states my belief 
that the Registry specifications should allow registration of external 
repository items if the Registration Authority wants that to happen. I 
present the outline of a proposal that would facilitate this capability.

I'm making this proposal to the entire Registry team because I think it 
impacts the deliberations of several of our sub-teams, especially query, 
external scheme, and cooperating registries. I looked at the use cases 
under cooperating registries and found that many of them would be satisfied 
simply by allowing the Registry to register repository items that live 
elsewhere. I think it's best to let the whole team see the issue up front 
so that it can be discussed with input from all effected sub-teams at the 
same time.

-- Len


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