Re: protocol: "outstanding" operations

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 04:13 AM 5/19/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>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.

That's my fear.  Are such clarifications going cause more
confusion? 

>Improvements are welcome:-)

My suggestion would be avoiding the need to define the
term.  Instead, I would try to reword any sentence which
used the phrase "outstanding operation" (or "outstanding
request") to be reasonable clear without having to
rely on separately stated terminology definitions.

>And maybe I should have done s/request/operation/ above.
>
>-- 
>Hallvard