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[Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Andy Bennett <andyjpb AT knodium.com> wrote:
>
> Whilst there's a good case for some ECs in relation to the legal
> commitments of the entities themselves (i.e. around data protection),
> and this naturally makes implications about which data (attributes) are
> suitable to release, we should be very careful how ECs proliferate.

Entity Categories *will* proliferate, and I think that's a good thing.

> Adding an EC for things which aren't directly related to the entities
> themselves can put the details in the wrong place and this will only
> increase the complexity of an already very complex system.

I totally agree with you, Andy. Seems we're talking about
organizational categories, not entity categories, in which case we're
really discussing metadata registration practices.

Tom