Action Item: Resolution of Unresolvable Peer Links Issue

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>]

Chris and I arrived at this understanding of what the rule should be:

If a reference to a peer map cannot be resolved and there is a reference
to a 
key name in the peer map's scope, the system SHOULD report the key
reference as 
unresolvable but can indicate that, because the scope a peer map, it is
possible the key could be resolved once the peer map is available. In this
processing context, if there is an otherwise lower-precedence local-scope
key definition with the same qualified name then that key definition
should be used.

That is, in the case where the root map cannot be resolved, the processor
MUST treat the key space associated with the peer map's scope as being
empty and normal key processing rules apply when resolving key references.


Cheers,

Eliot
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