- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:37:59 -0500 (EST)
- To: skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Williams, Stuart)
- Cc: jacek@systinet.com, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Hi Stuart, > Mark, Jacek, > > I guess that a (small) concern I have with some of the direction this is > taking is that it introduces the potential for the metadata to be > inconsistent with the actual message content, this creates new failure cases > and potentially some need to consider how such inconsistencies should be > handled and so-forth. Yes, definitely, and it's worth considering the cost of that. I've got a separate email I'll be sending about addressing that for the "envelope" and "action" parameters. > I think if we create a means to create inconsistency between say some > fine-grain message type expressed in a content-type header and the actual > type of the message content, there will be folks with either curious or > malicious intent that 'experiment' with being inconsistent. > > The more stuff that leaks out of the message headers the more potential to > be inconsistent... > > I think we need to keep this stuff to the bare essentials and largely with > the status of a hint, ie. the presense of inconsistency the message content > is king. That's my suggestion too. More later. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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