On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mathew Ryden wrote:

> From: "thelema" <thelema at mh246001.truman.edu>
> 
> 
> > not bad.  If there's any annoying protocol issues, I'm the person to
> > bother with them, especially in regards to the metadata spec.
> 
> Could you possibly add a statement to the effect of 'every fieldset can have
> additional optional 'key=value' pairs and that all fcp parsers are expected
> to be able to handle them as such and still work flawlessly if only what is
> specced is sent?
> 
Ah, good point.  This is one of the things that seems obvious to me, but
is only so because of the length of time I've been working with freenet
for.

> It would make sure that anyone creating such a fcp parser would not get
> caught up on the spec being outdated.
> 
yes, there's a level of explanation of what's going on that's missing.

> (on an aside, i think the failed count really should be documented someplace
> so the clients can keep track of it but sometime adam *will* finish wr which
> probably won't include the same extra metadata so we have to watch out for
> it)
> 
> -Mathew
> 
You mean wr isn't just a myth like avalon or the necronomicon?
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