hi, David Horat wrote:
This is the same approach that has been taken for the LDAP implementation. To make this possible, IDs must be globally unique. I support this approach as it lets the implementation to be less coupled to the technology used and facilitates interaction between different systems.
we'd be rather careful going this way. in the past within nordugrid we found a common, agreed structure (at that time within nordugrid) very important. i have doubts that flattening everything will give us better interoperability. in any case, the issue/proposal worth to be discussed on a phonecall. one more note: the rendering was an important part of the public comment specification. Turning everything upside down e.g. in xml may need glue to enter into another public comment period. cheers, Balazs Konya