RE: SUO: Re: Registry etc.
Thanks for the reply, Mike. I'm a lot clearer now about what the issue is.
What if it were made clear in the motion that the registry was not
itself the SUO but merely a supportive tool for SUO version control?
Cathy.
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Mike Pool wrote:
> Cathy,
>
> The issue is that it's not clear what the function of the registry
would be, etc. I am, of course, all for QA, motherhood, the war against
terrorism and baseball on sunny afternoons. The concern is not a concern
with content being managed by the registry, I'm not sure which messages
you read, it is an issue of what exactly the point of the registry is
with respect to the SUO objectives and how much diverse content it will
manage. If it is just an end in itself, i.e., the SUO is a registry, it
represents little progress in the efforts to come up with a SUO over and
above efforts like those that can be seen at the Bateman URL to which
John has pointed us. If it is a tool for intricately interweaving all
kinds of contributions, each of which has content that significant
overlaps (but, of course, with slightly different labeling and
representational approaches), with other contributions to the SUO,
without trying to significantly vet and choose from amongst different
representational conventions, then I see it as requiring very high
maintenance but being of very little service.
>
> The ensuing discussion suggested that the proposed registry is many
things to many people, so I'm still not sure whether the above concerns
were justified. Or, one might say that since the function of the
registry with respect to the ultimate SUO objectives just isn't clear to
anyone, my concerns about it are well-founded.
>
> John's recent restatements have made me feel a lot better (but largely
because there is no mention of a registry).
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