Re: Comments on -file-list-00

[capple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christopher W Apple)]

>Greetings again. I'm quite happy with all of the drafts Chris put up
>earlier this week. I hope from the resounding silence that others are also
>happy. :-)
>
>I would like to see one change to the -file-list draft, however. Right now,
>you can mix and match numbers and names in the base, listversion, and type
>portions. Thus, you could have:
>base.12.3.1
>base.12.current.1
>1.12.0.ldap
>
>This is very messy. Instead, I propose that the alphabetic names always be
>used in every part, except when numbers are substituted everywhere to make
>an OID. The BNF would change to only include the alphabetic names, and we
>would add something like:
>
>The name may also be specified as an OID. In this case, "base" would become
>the full OID base for the repository, a listversion of "current" would
>become "0", and the type would be substituted according to the following
>table:...
>
>This would make storage on the server much easier, and retrieval would be
>much more definitive: either use the words only, or use the full OID.
>
>Further, I would like to get rid of "base" for the names. Thus, a name
>would be "12.3.ldap" or "12.current.ldap". When they were retrieving by
>OID, they would prepend the base to the name. It is perfectly reasonable to
>force the server to allow listing requests by full OID and by just
>sequence.listversion.type numbers.
>
>--Paul Hoffman, Director
>--Internet Mail Consortium

I concur with the above. Anyone who does not should speak up REALLY SOON.

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