1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined
elsewhere
3.2 Terms defined in this
Recommendation
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Conventions
6 Recommendation
6.1 Notions of trust
6.2 Trust information
6.3 Federated registries
for discovery
7 Interoperability architecture
for federated registries
7.1 Digital entity data
model
7.2 Digital entity
interface protocol
7.3 Interactions with a
registry
7.4 Resolution systems
7.5 Distributed queries
and aggregated metadata in federated registries
7.6 Metadata schemas
7.7 Metadata
interoperability
8 Types and type attributes
9 Hierarchical federation and
peer-to-peer federation
Appendix I – Scenarios of usage
Appendix II – BNF notation for a Type record
Bibliography