On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Tim Showalter wrote: > A well-known server implements 4.1.3 (dummy messages), and in practice, it > seems to work out. Either the client caches and doesn't ask questions that > would show the server is inconsistent, or the client doesn't cache and doesn't > know the server is inconsistent. That is, there's a problem, but both of the > likely client implementations tend to cover it up quite nicely.
I agree that 4.1.3 is less objectionable than 4.1.2; it delivers less of a surprise, and most clients probably wouldn't even recognize that they were surprised. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
