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RE: Fix for VLV draft.



>The original thinking in the sorting draft was that the client could ask 
>for it to be sorted but not require it.  The criticality field seemed at 
>the time perfectly suited for this use.  It could be that the client is 
>capable of doing the sort but also "is hopeful" that the server already has 
>the data indexed by the sort key so can simply run down the index when 
>calculating/formatting the result set.

I think, these days if someone were to define a control, and they wanted this functionality, they'd be persuaded to add an option to the control data that provided it.