The logic of which institute a document is being published on behalf of ought to be handled at the project level rather than at the user level.

[allynt]

The logic of which institute a document is being published on behalf of ought to be handled at the project level rather than at the user level.

Currently, as a result of #527, a user chooses a single institute to belong to and only users which have selected an institute may publish documents. What ought to happen is that a project should associate itself with several institutes and a user should select from one of those institutes at the time of publication.

[davidhassell]

What is a project in this context? CMIP6, perhaps?

David

[allynt]

@davidhassell - That is correct.

[davidhassell]

Does that mean that, pretty much, anyone can publish anything under the name of any instituion?

[allynt]

...well it means that a project member (who will have had to have been approved by a project administrator) could.

An improvement would be for a user to still select an institute and then for only project members who belong to one of the institutes supported by a project to publish a document.

Ultimately, though, this still relies on a user being honest when they claim that they are a member of an institution. I don't see any way around that.

[davidhassell]

OK, and stop me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure that it is ideal that anyone from any CMIP6 institute could edit and repbulish any document from another institute ...