[GeoNetwork-users] GeoNetwork OAI-PMH deletedRecord support?

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    Hi All,<br>
    <br>
    About two years ago, a proposal was discussed about implementing
    OAI-PMH deletedRecord support
    (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/oaipmh_improvements">http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/oaipmh_improvements</a>).<br>
    This would be the best way to keep metadata of a GN node A in all
    other GN nodes X,Y,Z which are synchronized to it...<br>
    <br>
    <b>Case study: </b>GN node A provides metadata set A, which is
    daily harvested by GN nodes X,Y,Z. All GN nodes A,X,Y,Z are intended
    to provide to users the metadata set A. For some crash reason, node
    A looses the metadata set A. In this case, on the next run on GN
    nodes X,Y,Z of the harvester for metadata set A from GN node A, the
    behavior is as follows: <br>
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      <li><b>Without deletedRecord support:</b> as the metadata set A
        UUIDs will no more be returned from GN node A, the next OAI-PMH
        harvesting of node A from nodes X, Y, Z will delete also all
        mirrored metadata set A on nodes X,Y,Z. Thus these metadata are
        completely lost. </li>
      <li><b>With deletedRecord support:</b> GN nodes X,Y,Z should be
        able to not delete metadata set A mirrored from GN node A while
        they are not explicitly marked as Deleted in the OAI-PMH
        response. In case of a crash of GN node A, metadata were not
        deleted but simply lost; thus metadata set A will remain
        available to users on GN nodes X,Y,Z. </li>
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    Does someone know which is the current status of this proposal, or
    if future releases of GN are intended to support deletedRecords? <br>
    <br>
    Many thanks,<br>
    Victor<br>
    <br>
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