Re: [regrep] Issue with UUID's for Core Components and BIE's

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

+1

Matthew MacKenzie wrote:

>I would like to caution everyone against working around a registry's built
>in identification mechanisms.  By storing primary identifiers as Slots, we
>degrade the authority of the registry.  Registries use the UUIDs as their
>primary identifier to objects, and in practice they are optimized more
>completely for operations involving intrinsic metadata.  I've been involved
>in a complex technology integration involving ebXML registry, and a choice I
>am regretting is using Slots for things that could technically be addressed
>by attributes of RegistryObject or RegistryEntry.
>
>-Matt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David RR Webber [mailto:david@drrw.info] 
>Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 4:40 PM
>To: carlmattocks@checkmi.com
>Cc: carlmattocks@checkmi.com; Chiusano Joseph; Duane Nickull;
>regrep@lists.oasis-open.org; regrepsemantic@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [regrep] Issue with UUID's for Core Components and BIE's
>
>Carl,
>
>Precisely.
>
>And these authorities usually already have their own coding scheme
>worked out already - so you really want to make sure you have
>that "External ID" slot and mechanism to just put that straight in.
>
>No need for us to create extra work for people  -just leverage
>what they have done already and automate the use of it.
>
>Behold the power of UID.
>
>Cheers, DW.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Carl Mattocks" <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>
>To: "David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>
>Cc: <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>; "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>;
>"Duane Nickull" <dnickull@adobe.com>; <regrep@lists.oasis-open.org>;
><regrepsemantic@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [regrep] Issue with UUID's for Core Components and BIE's
>
>
>  
>
>>Yes, Yes - similar to the way the Getty Art Foundation acts as the
>>authority for the semantic relations embedded in Art & Architecture
>>Thesuarus and  ACORD is the authority for Schemas used in Insurance
>>transactions (and eventually the ontology) ...
>>I expect the content of many Registry / Repository services will be
>>organized using 'associations' defined elsewhere and therefore require
>>synchronization on a regular basis. .
>>
>>
>><quote who="David RR Webber">
>>    
>>
>>>Carl,
>>>
>>>You raise an interesting another point.  In BCM we talk about
>>>domains, communities of interest and then authoritive sources.
>>>
>>>Such an authority clearly has to be responsible for managing the
>>>UID values within their domain.
>>>
>>>Using my example - the USPS is managing the semantics
>>>around their address formats.  Then this can be crosswalked
>>>to the international authority - the UPU - and their UID set,
>>>and similarly the OASIS CIQ too.
>>>
>>>However - you expect that domain analysts can work
>>>offline - and then later upload or share their work with
>>>both RR servers and co-workers.   This is another
>>>critical value - that avoids the need for an RR in order
>>>to be able to do CCTS.  If you use UUID - you are almost
>>>mandating that people have to do this with RR - and that
>>>clearly breaks the ebXML need for components to be
>>>self-sufficient.
>>>
>>>The good news is - by decoupling away from UUID values
>>>and using UID as the reference - any registry can happily
>>>import those definitions and assign it own local UUID internal
>>>keys to those entries - without breaking anything.
>>>
>>>Also - by using the UID - you can track groups of related
>>>definitions ( query on "USPS0201*" ) and so on - and
>>>versions and sub-versions (query on "USPS020120:*") -
>>>which is not possible in a UUID based system.
>>>
>>>Notice also that if you want to use something like UDEF id
>>>in addition - or in place of the 6 digit UID - this also
>>>works - for the same reasons - the authoritative source
>>>creates the UDEF ids and these then become the domain
>>>reference system.
>>>
>>>All these behaviours and more is why the reference system
>>>for the semantic building blocks should be using the UID
>>>tied to the registry%
>>>      
>>>
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