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We need some indirection to specify match context, defaults "Thesaurus name" gives us a way to define a thesaurus, then specify it in the query - an indirection. Steve Buxton proposes there are many classes of things that are needed for context-match (stoplist, special characters, etc.) that need an indirection. So we need an extra level of indirection - a named policy that refers to a set of named things.
The Full-Text Task Force has agreed that this feature is not necessary in V1 of the Full-Text spec and will re-consider it in any possible future version of Full-Text.