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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

On 12/05/2013 03:30 PM, Ian Young wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2013, at 14:24, Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se> wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> 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.
Yeah but they have to be _able_ to merge/combine is my point.
> Neither of these examples really addresses the OP's issue, either, which is 
> about sources of metadata which directly conflict.
Conflicts should result in dropping entities. No doubt about that.
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