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RE: [Per-Entity] Some thoughts about availability and scalability


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  • From: "Cantor, Scott" <>
  • To: Chris Phillips <>, "Per-Entity Metadata Working Group" <>
  • Subject: RE: [Per-Entity] Some thoughts about availability and scalability
  • Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:51:24 +0000
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> If we don't have these we need them otherwise we are going to be
> fragmented in an answer due to different perceptions of what are the 'right'
> qualities.

Right, I think that's become clear (and no, we don't have that consensus, or
anything written down).

> Federation operators
> around the globe operate this now and MDQ 'answers' are not very
> different from serving up a metadata aggregate at all - are they?

This seems to be a point of debate, and I guess there is a perception that
the current aggregate model is being exposed to semi-frequent outages of at
least "minutes" that could not be tolerated with MDQ.

-- Scott



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