> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:54:13 -0400
> From: Ray Denenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > So my concrete proposal is simply that the client should send, as
> > a part of the search request, a bit saying whether or not it wants
> > the server to maintain a persistent result set.
>
> We explored all of this, in great depth, at our first meeting a year
> ago.  There was strong sentiment not to do this as it would be a
> futile effort to define negotiation that wouldn't work in practice
> anyway.

Why not?

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