Towards a better distributed database model..

> Antonio_Blasco Bonito writes :
> 
>  that the authoritative registry for a certain object is in practice
>  the registry where the object's maintainer is registered. I think it
>  should be expressed more clearly. Something like:
>    [...]
>    When a user sends an update to a registry, that registry will
>    forward it to the registry which is authoritative for the object
>    (i.e. the registry specified in the object's maintainer entry).
>    [...]

Yes, this is more clear ...

> 
> and a proposal:
> 
>  since the objects returned upon request by certain registry are
>  actually data received by neighbor registries through some "distribution
>  path" why not recycling the source attribute (or invent a new one) to
>  keep track of that path? I'm prettu sure that this information may
>  prove useful.

I agree, we should keep this information, but we could better use another
name then 'source' to avoid confusion. 

David Kessens
RIPE NCC
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