[MOBY-dev] policies on Biomoby registries

[Martin Senger]

You might have noticed that Mark (silently? :-)) created a new page with a
list of known biomoby registries where each registry can provide its own
policy (http://biomoby.org/CVS_CONTENT/moby-live/Docs/ProjectDocs/).
   This may not come as a surprise after his strongly expressed opinion of
what he wants and does not want in "his" registry.
   But it may be done slightly too silently to let me feel comfortable
(sorry, Mark, this is just my feeling, I cannot help it). The strength of
Biomoby was always in sharing - and if we suddenly starts to have many
registries this strenghts may decreased.
   On the other hand, I feel that we actually *need* more registries,
perhaps with different purposes, and with the different level of curation.
But before starting to list them we should - here my 2cs go in - think
first about federation of the registries, about an API how to access more
registries etc. We mentioned federation during the last developer meeting
(which was, btw and so far, really the last one, at least regarding the
funds available from Vancouver, as I understand it) but have not built on
it yet. And we should. Can we just postpone implementation of the
individual (public) registry policies and first to discuss how to make the
various registries federated?
   Thanks in advance for your opinions.

   Martin

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