* Doug Davis <dug@us.ibm.com> [2004-12-15 09:22-0500] > But then what the point of the comparison assertion then? If anything > could influence it, even the time of day, then WSA's claim about their > equality is really meaningless - isn't it? It seems that the metadata > itself must be retrieved for the two EPR (and in their proper context) and > then that metadata itself compared. Perhaps the current (or suggested) > text would make more sense if I understood the use-case it was addressing > (no pun intended :-) - does anyone have that? And, if, as you suggest, > its the application's job to take them all into account then the spec > should probably say that since as written it implies that a simple EPR > comparison is enough to draw some very broad conclusions. My understanding is that this is for metadata caching purposes. -- Hugo Haas - W3C mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/
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