Re: [xri] Removing priority attribute from XRD altogether

[John Bradley <jbradley@mac.com>]

We lose a round robin load balancing that no one ever used.

Some things that don't preserve order may break.

The addition of dsig requires order to be preserved anyway.

I vote for dropping the priority attribute to simplify things.

John B.
On 29-Aug-09, at 9:15 PM, Gabe Wachob wrote:

> Wow.
>
> This feels like deja vu, only the consensus on this list is 180
> degrees different.
>
> I'm all for relying on ordering, always have been. Any There was
> significant opposition
>
> +1e6 to dropping the priority attribute.
>
>   -Gabe (yes, I'm still a TC member for the time being)
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, <njones@ouno.com> wrote:
>> +1 On dropping the priority attribute.
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:07:26 -0700, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>> If the XML experts on the list feel comfortable with the ability to
>>> preserve document ordering, I am very much in favor of dropping the
>>> priority attribute.
>>>
>>> EHL
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:30 PM
>>>> To: 'Peter Davis'
>>>> Cc: 'XRI TC'; 'DeWitt Clinton'
>>>> Subject: RE: [xri] Removing priority attribute from XRD altogether
>>>>
>>>> Peter Davis wrote on 2009-08-27:
>>>>> My concern with this is that i fear that XRD instances which are
>>>>> dynamically generated within an application are able to produce
>>>>> service elements in the order they intend when serializing their
>>>>> object into XML.  I do not have sufficient exposure to enough XML
>>>>> libraries to know if this is truly an issue, however.
>>>>
>>>> I mentioned on the call that the people who would have problems  
>>>> with
>>>> order
>>>> are those using dumb or broken data binding tools. There are  
>>>> specs that
>>>> have
>>>> made and continue to make such allowances, but I think this is a  
>>>> lot of
>>>> effort for the rest of us to help people using broken tools.
>>>>
>>>> (A similar argument exists regarding making allowances for people  
>>>> that
>>>> insist on using non-XML tools to process XML.)
>>>>
>>>> -- Scott
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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