[OASIS Issue Tracker] (WSCALENDAR-502) General: Why not make Sequence a type of Component? Why not enhance the notion of Partition/Sequence to cope with the need for Streams?

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William Cox commented on WSCALENDAR-502:
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The real question is: why not do an ordinary sequence with a Gluon and all intervals same/zero spacing.

I think the answer is "real UIDs are long things" and a two-level identity space allows much shorter and human-readable XML.

An explanation could leverage the fact that there's a two directional mapping between a stream and a MIN explanation - why are we doing Streams?


> General: Why not make Sequence a type of Component?  Why not enhance the notion of Partition/Sequence to cope with the need for Streams?
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>                 Key: WSCALENDAR-502
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/WSCALENDAR-502
>             Project: OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: streams
>    Affects Versions: STRM CSPRD02
>         Environment: Benoit LePeuple
>            Reporter: Toby Considine
>            Assignee: Toby Considine
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> My understanding is that Streams are just a particular kind of Sequence (Partition), a new animal with particular rules of inheritance to minimize the amount of repeated data (by inventing the Stream Payload Base). Why not doing that with animals we already domesticated: A Gluon Payload Base or Sequence Payload Base?
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> I do not feel comfortable with such overlapping concepts and specifications.



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