[MOBY-dev] Notice that the ever elusive agent will start curating in 2 weeks

[Edward Kawas]

> 
> > I am going to create a test registry soon and you (and 
> everyone else) 
> > can use this registry for these types of services.
> >
>    I think that a selected authority (in my case 
> net.jmoby.samples) is good enough not to confuse people - and 
> I prefer to use a real registry when I am teching how to use 
> it. Why the address 'localhost' would cause any problems? 
> Every client, including your code in taverna, can easily 
> ignore these services and not to show them...

Using localhost doesn’t cause any problems, and you are right 
about clients being able to ignore them. My *personal* opinion 
is that if some naïve user comes and wants to try out moby and 
they encounter services that they would like to use, but they are 
all localhost or point to some unreachable domain, they would 
probably become frustrated and leave moby alone. The main registry 
should contain real services. It is very frustrating trying to show 
people what moby is, or how to use it when 90% of the services don’t 
really 'work'. Sure I can write a client that ignores certain authorities, 
but I  am not worried about me. Anyways, this is just my opinion. I 
thought that I would create a test registry so that others could benefit 
from it without feeling like the main registry was the only place they 
had to register their test services.

Ed
 
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