> Wouldn't this be better in ServerInfo than in DatabaseInfo?

Possibly, but DatabaseInfo is a supposed to be for information about the
service as well as some minimal information about Collection to get by on
if there isn't a full collection description available.

ServerInfo on the other hand is the essential information you need to
connect to the server itself, eg host, port, URL and protocol.

In a (still hypothetical) version 3.0 we could rename them as:
   serverInfo --> networkInfo
   databaseInfo --> serviceInfo

Which would be more accurate. The one thing that I don't want to do is
cast off absolutely all of the collection description information -- at
least we need a title and a very generic description field, because while
this would be duplicated in a collection description, it would make the
ZeeRex record close to non-useful in terms of displaying a summary
interface.

Rob

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