Re: Use of criticality in dupent-04

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 10:16 30/07/2000 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
> I think it's more likely that a repository must want to include a critical
> control in its response that allows it to "disclaim" some of its data.  For
> example, "these search results are not to be used for spam," "i cannot vouch
> for the content you'll get when you follow these referrals," etc.

another typical case would be "these data are incomprehensible if you don't 
understand this control" - for instance if we (horror!) were to define a 
control for tagging returned text as being Shift-JIS encoded instead of UTF-8.

The server can't force the client to do anything special, but can give 
appropriate warning that results are likely to be incomprehensible, and the 
only appropriate action on the client's side may be presenting an "upgrade 
your software?" message to the unhappy user.

                Harald

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