Re: renaming original dataflow

[Alex Rousskov <rousskov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, jfcm wrote:

> Another problem are "virgin data" still virgin after having crossed
> an OPES system and stayed unaltered? Many people will ask because
> not nécessarily obvious?

By OCP definition, any data that was processed (seen/touched) by a
callout server is "adapted", regardless of whether data bytes remained
unchanged. The idea is that just seeing (hence, possibly copying or
exporting) the data is sufficiently important to be traced/etc. In
other words, in OCP context, seeing data is as important as modifying
data.

Whatever word we choose, the problem you mention will persist, I
guess. The only solution may be to go back to "input/output"
terminology which I think we already rejected for other reasons.

Alex.