Re: [regrep] Content Management Services

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

In my hurry in previous message I forgot to properly attribute where the 
content validation idea came from. The idea was suggested by John Silva 
of Philips and Nikola independently as a follow-up to Content-based 
Discovery feature. John has been a quite force behind the scenes on many 
ideas and improvements in V3.

Farrukh Najmi wrote:

> (Resending as it went to wrong alias previously)
>
> One suggestion I have since f2f is to rename Content-based Discovery 
> chapter to "Content Management Services" and have one major section 
> called "Content Cataloguing Service". I am also proposing that we add 
> a very similar "Content Validation Service" which instead of creating 
> catalog data simply returns returns a boolean on whether the content 
> being submitted is syntactically and semantically valid or not. If not 
> valid then it is not accepted for submission. Nikola can describe this 
> proposed feature as we have discussed this in detail.
>
> The cost of specifying this new service is negligible as it builds on 
> the work for Content-based Discovery. And it would be a most valuable 
> feature as the biggest issue with registries is the quality of their 
> content.
>
> Thoughts?
>

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Regards,
Farrukh