[tdwg-guid] Immutability of LSID data

[Bob Morris]

On 7/16/07, Ricardo Pereira <ricardo at tdwg.org> wrote:
>
One thing that is wrong with it is that if a conforming client
acquires the data with a getData call from two different sources, and
they return different byte strings, then the client is permitted to
signal an error and possibly break an application that exercises a
blind faith in the power of "semantic immutability".


>  b) Some may claim that caching of LSIDs and the associated data would be
> impossible. But since the data is always "semantically immutable", what's
> wrong with caching it?
>

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