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Re: In-Band Information Considered Harmful

1998-10-25 15:28:12
I've been watching the in-band/out-band metadata discussion the past ferw
days, and something's been nagging at me. Perhaps it's already been
discussed.

With in-band meta-data, how do you (the collective you, not any particular
you) plan on handling multiple, overlapping, unrelated sets of metadata?
It seems like it'd get awfully messy with a single data stream, which is
what we get with in-band metadata.

Or have we decided already that there's only one set of metadata per
scalar?

                                Dan