RE: Finding Faults in headers

Excellent summary! The notion of orthogonality is right on and can
indeed be taken advantage of to provide a simpler dispatch mechanism in
the implementation.

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com

>Since the fault details are contained in headers, the component 
>responsible for processing the header entries which support the 
>"module" (including special "fault" headers), has the opportunity to 
>process them. Besides the design principle of "orgthogonality", in 
>practice I find that this is the best approach since the code that 
>processes header entries is different from that which processes the 
>body, at least in our implemention design.