RE: Multiple Addresses in an EPR

Rogers, Tony wrote on 10/16/2005, 7:50 PM:

 >
 > I strongly prefer DaveO's solution (put the extra addresses into an
 > extension) over the idea of making the address field unbounded.

So you prefer that everybody who choose to do this could do it in
a different way (some in metadata, some in additional EPR child
elements, all with different names unless they happened to get
lucky) and you prefer to store the *same* information in two
diferent locations within an EPR?

That doesn't make sense to me from a "good enginering" point of view.
A spec is there so that people do things in an interoperable,
predictable way.   Putting the data in a profile chosen, extension
area makes it very likely that different instances of this will
not be interoperable.

 > There will be a great many implementations using a single address (most
 > of the use-cases I've encountered so far will use a single address).

I agree that there are many that will use a single address.  I
think that there will be many more cases that people have throught
of so far that will take advantage of being able to use multiple
addresses.

This feedback you are getting is from someone who is *implementing*
this stuff to put it into production.   This isn't just an "it
would be nice" request.  Not having this capability makes it
very hard/inefficient to support a real world use of the spec.

Conor

Received on Monday, 17 October 2005 00:09:54 UTC