Re: an idea as an alternative to stored queries

Doug replied on 11/28/2003 03:20:58 PM:
>                               Ether the CUA knew what XXX
> did or not. Ether you were allowed (by VCAR like any other
> component) to modify it, remove it, add one, or not.

You neglect to take into account that a CU may use different CUAs and each 
may have their own expectation of what XXX does depending on who coded 
them (or if XXX was changed by a different CUA or other means).

As such, just because CUA-1 'knows' that XXX performs a particular action 
does not mean it will always be so and unless CUA-1 can retrieve and 
confirm this by existing means then a change by CUA-2 may different 
behaviour for the same CU depending on what CUA they are using.  For 
example, your PDA may have one expecation while your desktop CUA may have 
another.  This is not goodness.

So if CUAs are coded to rely on things they cannot retrieve and look at 
using CAP such as unencodable in CAP actions or queries then this 
expecation that the CUA 'knows' what XXX does is fundamentally flawed and 
bad.

Bruce
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