Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Scott Koranda <>]

> I'm not in favour of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, certainly. I 
> think the spec needs a way of saying "all of them", but by the same token I 
> am not opposed to some change in the wording giving an implementation more 
> leeway in its response.
> 
> If people have suggested revisions to the text, let me know.
> I am overdue in pushing a new rev of the draft to the IETF
> anyway, I mainly haven't bothered because there were no
> useful changes. If we have some, I can do that fairly
> quickly.

I like the idea of a server being able to say in a compliant
way "no, I will not give you all of them because that is
expensive and I do not have time".

So a developer/deployer has the freedom to not deliver the
full aggregate in order to meet performance requirements.

Scott K