InCommon metadata support

[Jaime Perez Crespo <>]

Hi Scott,

> On 18 Mar 2015, at 23:43 pm, Cantor, Scott 
> <>
>  wrote:
>> That was my first thought as well. Before you brought it up, I've
>> always thought an implementation would fetch the entire aggregate
>> while booting up and then use the MDQ protocol to keep up to date.
> 
> The problem to me is that if you can fetch the aggregate, there really is 
> no earthly reason to bother with this. Refetching it and processing it in a 
> background thread takes care of the subsequent overhead, at least in terms 
> of what a user sees. So it really never occurred to me. You don't preload 
> DNS.

I guess we’re looking at MDQ from different perspectives here. It is pretty 
clear to me that you see it as a resolver, analog to DNS or similar basic 
services. I’m trying to get more out of it, and even take advantage of it as 
a metadata management tool.

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