Re: protocol: "outstanding" operations

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

I wrote:
> A recent poster to the OpenLDAP-software list had not understood what an
> outstanding operation is.  Maybe [protocol] should define it at the time
> of first use.  Something like this:
>   
>   at the server: a request which is being or waiting to be processed.
>   at the client: as above,

including requests sent by the client which the server has not yet
received,

>   , or an operation for which the server has
>   sent a response which the client has not yet received.

It gets a bit cumbersome, I'm afraid.  Improvements are welcome:-)
And maybe I should have done s/request/operation/ above.

-- 
Hallvard