Comment on 'Reliability field'

Hi All,

Happy New Year.

A comment on our Spec:

In Section 5.2.7 on the Reliability
field we say 'The Default shall be 50' and I was left wondering what this
means to an implementer. This is an optional field so if an Atom submitter
omits the field but then later issues a query for all atoms with Reliabilty
= 50% should they expect to see that Atom returned? I don't think so: we
don't want to create an implicit requirement on a data engine to store
a value of 50.

I think what we mean here is to guide
users to what this value means so perhaps we soften the statement to say
that a value of 50% is regaded as typical.

Regards

Paul

Paul BRUTON BSc PhD

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