Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

["Walter Forbes Hoehn (wassa)" <>]

> On Jul 27, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Cantor, Scott 
> <>
>  wrote:
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> On 7/27/16, 1:56 PM, 
> "
>  on behalf of Jorj Bauer" 
> <
>  on behalf of 
> >
>  wrote:
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>>   Sure, and DNS has the same characteristics.
> 
> DNS can tolerate long outages? That is really not my experience, but I'm no 
> DNS expert. Can you clarify?

Your points about DNS are well-taken, but where the comparison breaks down is 
that we aren’t talking about asking thousands of institutions to point their 
systems at InCommon’s DNS servers. I think the major risk here is 
reputational. With the centralized model we seem to be headed toward, hiccups 
could be catastrophic, certainly in terms of MDQ adoption, but also perhaps 
in terms of the perceived value proposition of the federation.

I’m not attempting to argue against MDQ or “our” ability to deploy reliable 
infrastructure, but I think we need to have our eyes open to the risks of the 
various models that we propose. 

-WFH