Its an open point. I certainly do think its bad, but I absolutely concede others might think it's either benign, or even good. I'm struggling to hypothesise how it could be good to have distinct fragmentation outcomes which are essentially unknowable in advance for a specific client, and the debug qualities for a large provider facing reports of problem from point A which are unrepeatable from point B stand out to me, but I suppose it is in that set of things which fall to "diversity is good". If it is intentional, wouldn't it be better to have it documented? -G On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Wessels, Duane <dwessels@verisign.com> wrote:
On Mar 26, 2017, at 5:03 PM, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:
Some evidence from random query tests suggests both that there is no consistency between the root operators, and some inconsistency within a given root letter, depending on where you query goes, or what protocol you use.
George,
I'm getting the sense here that you might think such inconsistency is bad, or unintentional.
Should this be a topic of study, perhaps one component should be whether it is beneficial or harmful to have such differences, both inter- and intra-operator.
DW