+ Various uses and possibilities for 
obs_publisher_did
 
-  How the user will be able to make use of it.
 
 
This is not a ObsTAP issue, it is a more generic question:
Within the IVOA architecture, how to use a 
obs_publisher_did?
For publications? To find again the data? For programmatic access? 
-  Given it is a CLOB field, nobody can actually use it to find the same data again (and access_url is volatile).
 
 
The IVOA should seriously think how to consume it.