[ticker-dev] Timeout attribute

[Ian Lister]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Phillips, Matthew wrote:
>How about this as a way to ease the transition: 3.0final messages using
>the new Timeout get a "org.tickertape.message: 3001" tag, messages with
>"org.tickertape.message: 3000" are 3.0draft1 and messages with no version
>field are considered to be 3.0final.

That doesn't seem too unreasonable.

I was wondering why we called it org.tickertape.message instead of
message.tickertape.org? I remember there was an minor argument in favour
of the latter because it allowed string comparisons called in the case of
hash collisions to complete slightly quicker, but I can't recall any
arguments in favour of the former. The minutes that David posted the other
day
(http://elvin.dstc.com/projects/tickertape/ticker2001/minutes/renaming/index.html)
also refer to a tickertape.elvin.org attribute. Anyway, this might be a
possible way out if we wanted to change the name of that attribute at the
same time as changing Timeout... :-)

Perhaps we should take this as a lesson that in future we shouldn't have
clients implemementing a draft claim to implement the final standard?
Although with a purely numeric version that might get a bit ugly.

Ian