On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> operations like these (symlink, readlink, lock, etc.) that only have
> significance at the extremities should not worry the transit relays.
> that was the reason for Text/Rext proposal.
>
> regardless, interpretation of the ops in a hetergeneous environment
> will be a problem.
>
Transitive mounts aside, why shouldn't intermediates just forward
unknown messages? End-points which receive messages they don't know
how to deal with just return Error and the client adjusts accordingly.
Endpoint interpretation of operations should be well documented to
prevent silliness and invisible hedgehogs named Dimsdale.
I suppose this is the same thing you are saying, I just want to have
separate protocol ops for messages versus a single extension op. I
suppose the difference is largely an implementation decision assuming
your protocol operation space is large enough....
-eric
