Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 23:37:31 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> But if a user creates this document in application A and sends it to a
>> colleague using application B: if that second application silently
>> removes those metadata attributes and the first user gets it back with
>> that information stripped, that's bad, and should -- I believe -- be
>> discouraged by this TC.
>
> I have seen nobody that has a problem with such a thing. I certainly agree
> silently losing data is bad and should be discouraged.
> The question is what can the TC can do that will not harm real use cases
> and which actually will have the effect we are after.
I agree to what Thomas says here. Silently removing metadata is bad, and
should be discouraged. It may be that I change my mind if this
interesting discussion continues, but right now, I believe that the best
solution is to state in some guidelines that metadata should not be
silently removed.
Michael
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