Re: Another take on versioning

Is this really a problem since it could be cached by the processor ?
So indeed the first time, it will *need* to connect to W3C, but after that,
then we can consider that the implementation will cache it (or any other
part of the web between the processor and the W3C website).
My two cents

Xmlizer

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

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> Jeni Tennison writes:
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> > Now what happens? Of course developers update the pipeline libraries
> > that their pipelines use, especially because they want some new
> > pipelines that have been added, but not everyone updates their
> > pipeline processor, mostly because they can't (because they're built
> > in to the databases that they've paid vast sums of money for).
> >
> > Now:
> >
> >   (a) whenever those people run their pipelines, the processor has to
> > make a connection to the W3C server to get hold of the v2
> > declarations. On some websites, this is every time there's a request
> > to the website. The people using the pipelines are largely oblivious
> > to this fact, with the result that there are millions of hits per day
> > on the W3C website requesting that pipeline library, amounting to a
> > DDoS attack. One day, the W3C website is unreachable, effectively
> > preventing thousands of other websites from working.
> >
> >   (b) developers on planes get extremely pissed off at not being able
> > to run their pipelines at all just because they lack internet
> > connectivity.
>
> This is a good analysis, and the dependence on caching in principle
> and connectivity in practice is indeed a serious flaw with the _status
> quo_ use of p:import and fixed-URI-version-defining-libraries.
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> ht
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