> Though Theo's immediate problem of not having anything to
> display
What worries me about Theo's problem is that either he has some
control/influence over the servers he is searching, so could mandate
similar behaviour or compliance to a profile and should be able to work
with the protocol as is, or else he doesn't have any control and hence
any *optional* feature we introduce will not solve the problem - a
server Theo might wish to use might have decided not to implement the
having a record id in the surrogate diagnostic (e.g. if it doesn't
support records ids); and I don't think we would want to make any of the
solutions we've discussed so far, to be mandatory behaviour.
Matthew
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