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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

On 5 Dec 2013, at 14:24, Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se> wrote:

> It would not be a registration at all. Kantara would (ideally) be an
> aggregator that fetches authoritative metadata from lots of places and
> publish a "decorated" stream...
> 
> If you want a more close-to-home example, consider a service that
> aggregates lots of feeds and allows service owners to sign the CoC for
> "their" SPs - a decorated feed is produced downstream.

Neither of these are merges in any sense that I'd recognise. It's the people 
downstream from such things who would have to merge the new information back 
in unless they were consuming it directly.

Neither of these examples really addresses the OP's issue, either, which is 
about sources of metadata which directly conflict.

        -- Ian

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