comment on issues in DASL draft: truncation

Comments on issues in the DASL draft 
(http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-latest.html), 
in the order they appear in the draft

Issue result-truncation 
http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-latest.html#rfc.issue.result-truncation

Is really two issues

1. the response body ... should also contain a *different* element stating 
that the results were incomplete and the result set was truncated by the 
server.

I don't understand how this is different from the current proposal.  Isn't 
the response element with status 507 exactly this?  If not, it needs to be 
explained.

2. "may also be a need to report that the results were incomplete and the 
result set was truncated at the choice of the *client*" [emphasis mine].

I agree that this could be useful, but I think this issue should be 
consolidated with issue JW5 (see below), which proposes that DASL 
basicsearch ought to have a way for client to request additional result 
sets.  It should be moved because there is little or no value in allowing a 
client to distinguish between the case where "N results were requested, and 
there are exactly N available" and "N results were requested, and there are 
more than N available" if there is no way for client to get the next batch 
of results.

Received on Monday, 27 May 2002 19:52:49 UTC