Credential instance references to non-registry concepts & competencies

[stuartasutton]

We need to discuss how references to competencies in non-CE registry repositories will/should/might be handled--e.g., a CE registry credential reference to a CASE encoded competency in a non-CE registry/repository. I'm making the assumption, for example, that a credential instance in the registry that references a competency in the IMS Case Registry (ICR) does so via our standards CredetialAlignmentObject--embodying the competency text and URI's pointing to relevant URI's in the ICR. [i.e., there's no CTDL-ASN decoding of the CASE version of the framework in the CER] This would mean that resolving either the node link or the framework link in that CredetialAlignmentObject would resolve: to (1) an html page in the ICR for the competency, or (2) ICR would return the relevant CASE data.

What are the implications in terms of the finder, etc.? Likely none at the moment since there's no means to resolve those URI. But what CE about that data in the wild? What about traversal of such links via the graph store.

[siuc-nate]

@stuartasutton Is this issue still needed? Can it be closed?