Re: PROV-ISSUE-52 (provenance-source-equal-treatment): why handling provider and third parties differently? [Accessing and Querying Provenance]

Hi Graham,

The justifications are important, but I don't understand them. Can you 
clarify?

On 07/28/2011 03:55 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:
> One might say:  why not use third party mechanisms for everyone?  I 
> suggest:
> (1) the third party solutions are more complex to deploy

More complex to deploy? can you explain why?

> (2) the third party solutions impose considerable additional network 
> traffic and processing overhead compared with provider-based solutions

Considerable additional network traffic?  In my view, one HTTP GET 
(instead of your HTTP HEAD).
So what's the network traffic overhead?

What about the processing overhead?  I don't see it.

Thanks,
Luc

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