On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:20:52AM -0400, Ray Denenberg wrote:
> True, the reference id in Z39.50 has been nearly useless,
> because the protocol never specified, and implementors could never agree,
> what it was supposed to be used for.

I don't want to get off topic, but if we are talking about ths same thing,
we rely heavily on reference id's as according to what the spec defines
them to be. You cannot support concurrent operations without them.
Trigger cancel type requests use them too.

I don't want to start a thread here - maybe you are not talking about
the same reference id's (that is, the ones specified in the Z39.50 ASN.1).
The reference id's in the Z39.50 ASN.1 are crucial to certain Z39.50
operations and have clearly defined semantics in the spec.

Alan