Q: how do you tell when a lawyer is lying ?
A : their lips are moving
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Linde [mailto:ael-at-star.le.ac.uk]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 17:57
>To: 'IVOA Registry mailing list'
>Subject: RE: definition of registry
>
>
>> Registry: (noun) a dynamically updatable database containing
>> metadata about and contained by resources available to a
>> grid. A single registry may be one of a network of mutually
>> queriable registries.
>
>What does 'and contained by' mean?
>
>> I think I must have been a lawyer in a past life.
>
>Nah! 250,000 words too short!
>
>Cheers,
>Tony.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Elizabeth Auden [mailto:eca-at-mssl.ucl.ac.uk]
>> Sent: 30 April 2003 17:32
>> To: 'IVOA Registry mailing list'
>> Subject: definition of registry
>>
>>
>>
>> Does the IVOA have an official (or at least agreed)
>> definition of "registry"? If so, what is it? I was asked for
>> a definition by Prof. Len Culhane, the MSSL lab director.
>>
>> This is what I have:
>>
>> Registry: (noun) a dynamically updatable database containing
>> metadata about and contained by resources available to a
>> grid. A single registry may be one of a network of mutually
>> queriable registries.
>>
>> I think I must have been a lawyer in a past life.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Received on 2003-04-30Z19:04:50