Re: regarding the resolution of issue 431

Hmmm... 

It isn't clear to me that preserving order is a necessarily good idea. In 
fact, I think
that no significance should be accorded the order of parts carried as 
attachments.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
phone: +1 508 234 3624

xml-dist-app-request@w3.org wrote on 07/14/2003 01:50:30 PM:

> 
> On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 07:41 US/Eastern, Jacek Kopecky wrote:
> >
> > I also motion to close the (narrower) issue 431 because there seems to
> > be consensus in the WG that intermediaries can, in general, change 
what
> > is optimized. If we come up with a requirement that is contrary to 
this
> > (which seems extremely unlikely, considering the voices in the group)
> > the requirement will be a new information and we'll happily reopen the
> > issue.
> >
> As an example, somebody (I don't remember who) mentioned, during the 
> last telcon, a requirement that attachment order be preserved. I think 
> its premature to start closing potentially related issues until such 
> requirements are clear. Of course we can always close then re-open 
> issues, but what's the point in doing that ?
> 
> Marc.
> 
> --
> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
> Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.
>