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Thanks Ray, I agree fully with your plan, Janifer -----Original Message----- From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 03 June 2004 19:57 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: diagnostic numbers From: "Mike Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> > Badger me backwards, it's true. We must all have been out of our tiny > minds when we decided to start the "diagnostics relating to records" > sequence at 50. Actually, the plan was to have no gaps at all. We left a temporary gap for convenience in case there were to be additional query diagnostics *before* the 1.1 release, and we were going to renumber in any case, before the 1.1 release, leaving no gaps. I think we were pretty much in agreement on the principal that we didn't want to create the illusion of finite subspaces. But we forgot to renumber. (That's where we "dropped the ball" in Mike words.) As to the current two diagnostics, I don't really care whether they're 47, 48 or 201, 202. An since Jan seems to have the most passion on this, we'll go with 47, 48. > > Beginning now with a new range is like what we did with Z39.50 > > diagnostics which worked well, allowing us to easily associate a > > diagnostic with a particular era. > > What is the benefit to that? As Jan noted, no benefit to implementors. It is useful to those of us who maintain and document the standard. It has helped me on occasion recollect why a certain diagnostic was defined. Jan notes also, the Z39.50 diagnostics are a mess. That may be, but I don't think it's due to the numbering. ....Anyway...... my plan is to keep them grouped by category, not consectively numbered, and to maintain an auxiliary page listing them by number. Further, I'm working on a new page that gives examples and elaborations, as several of you have suggested, and I'll have a draft ready soon. --Ray ________________________ The information in this electronic mail message is private and may be confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the recipient. Should you receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this message is prohibited. Please delete this message and notify the sender immediately by return email. OCLC PICA accepts no liability for the improper transmission of information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we do advise you to scan attachments before opening them.