As we are on the clarifing train: with removing merge chaining are we considering removing simply the merging bit or chaining as a whole?

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Jeff W.Boote <boote@internet2.edu> wrote:

On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Roman Lapacz wrote:

>
> Yes, we can say that we are removing merge chaining from the NMC but
> in fact (in real examples) it will be still there as NM structures
> will be used in messages defined by NMC.


Ok, this was definitely not my impression. I was saying we should
specifically define NMC protocol messages to use a sub-set of NM-WG
schema that does NOT use merge chaining.

jeff

>
> Roman
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> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Aaron Brown wrote:
>
>> To alleviate some confusion on my end, are we removing merge
>> chaining from the NMC protocols? I thought that was what Jeff meant
>> when he talked
>> about removing merge chaining, but based on the emails, I'm not
>> sure if that was how others interpreted it. I'd would be wholly in
>> favor of its
>> removal.
>> Cheers,
>> Aaron
>> On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:04 AM, Roman Lapacz wrote:
>>
>>      I propose to continue the discussion on merge chaining (and
>> examples) on
>>      NM-WG mailing list (not to leave it for far future). I'll be
>> waiting there
>>      for your opinions I asked ealier.
>>
>>      Roman
>>
>>      On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Jason Zurawski wrote:
>>
>>            All;
>>
>>            On the call today everyone was in agreement that merge
>> chaining examples
>>
>>            do not need to be in the NMC document.  They will
>> continue to be
>>
>>            described in NM however.  If anyone disagrees, speak up
>> now.
>>
>>            Thanks;
>>
>>            -jason
>>
>>            On 4/14/10 3:07 PM, Jason Zurawski wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi Roman;
>>
>>                  I agree.  I will add this to the agenda for
>> tomorrow.
>>
>>                  -jason
>>
>>                  On 4/13/10 7:12 AM, Roman Lapacz wrote:
>>
>>                        Hi Jason&  all,
>>
>>                        I'm reading merge chaining examples in the
>> base doc and I'm not sure
>>
>>                        that keeping partial metadata elements,
>> which in my opinion are useless
>>
>>                        after chaining oparation, is a good
>> approach. I don't believe that they
>>
>>                        might be used for any further processing.
>> Keeping them in the examples
>>
>>                        presenting merged structures may be
>> confusing for a reader. I would
>>
>>                        remove them. What do you think (see examples
>> in the attachements)?
>>
>>                        Roman
>>
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