Separate LCUP cookie vs replication - was RE: Comments on LCUP draft - opaque cookie

Kurt,

if you agree that the format of the cookie isn't the real issue, then
let's please separate that into two discussions:

  1) the format of the cookie
  2) whether LCUP will support replicated environments

regards,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Christopher Apple; 'Richard Huber'; [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: RE: Comments on LCUP draft - opaque cookie


>From my perspective, the format of the cookie isn't the real issue.
The real issue is whether LCUP will support replicated environments.
In particular, whether a client which updated from replica A can
then incrementally update from replica B where the replicate model
has loose data consistency rules (that is, in replicated environments
where A and B may be out of sync, such as in LDUP-based replication).
Supporting replicated environments will go far beyond specifying the
structure of the cookie and require significant more work.

It's my opinion that LCUP support of replicated environments should
be viewed as beyond the scope of this work and left to future
extension.

Kurt