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[mailto:glue-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Millar said: On Thursday 15 May 2008 14:45:46 Balazs Konya wrote: My understanding is the Extension object is to allow Glue to represent completely new objects that cannot be expressed as any of the existing objects. The OtherInfo is for addition additional information to objects that can be expressed within Glue.
In effect it's about simplicity, OtherInfo is much easier to use both for people writing info providers and for clients trying to use it. However, for some things it may not be sufficient, and Extension can provide more structure if it's needed. Indeed, if we allowed Extensions to have Extensions of their own you could potentially build a whole custom schema within GLUE - although whether it would be a good idea might be questionable ... Stephen