Re: minutes of 2009-08-12 teleconference

Dear Jack,

> This doesn't look right, from a design cleanliness point of view. Now we 
> have, for parameters that are known to refer to an empty selection, an 
> error for two of our axes (time, space) and the whole resource for two 
> other axes (id, track). If we decide to stick with this (after all: I 
> wasn't in the meeting, so who am I to complain:-) we need a paragraph 
> with a very good rationale as to why we treat these two differently.
> 
> I think the "convenience" argument doesn't hold, because the most 
> convenient way to get the whole resource is to not specify the axis at 
> all (and I don't think we really need a convenient way to get an error 
> message:-).

You have definitively the right to complain about this WG decision :-) I 
will bring this discussion on the agenda of tomorrow's teleconference 
(agenda to be send in a few minutes).
Cheers.

   Raphaël

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