RE: Straw Poll: SerialNumber definition

[Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

>Ouch.

>The situation we started from is that there were two ways of
>interpreting a particular attribute.  The new situation you're
>pointing to is to increase that number from 2 to N.  I think that's a
>large step in the wrong direction.

Actually Denis proposal (which is exactly what I want to achieve with QC++) shows
a possible way to introduce a GENERIC mechanism that can be AUTOMATICALLY
deciphered (up to the level where the unmistakable identity is revealed) by RP software.
It gives N possibilities nut does not complicate RP software any more than any other extension

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Anders