Re: KMIP templates

On 6/09/2012 6:52 AM, Jim Flood wrote:
> So from the point of view of describing how people would actually use
> the key store, I think the pool of attributes explanation is much more
> simple than the immutable value explanation, and therefore is
> preferable. (I admit that I may be biased because this is how I have
> myself implemented templates -- as the pool of attributes, as Mathias
> wrote.)  Actually I argued that *all* objects should simply be a collection of attributes basically two years ago and was told that the model was specifically not that deliberately. Now if that is on the table that would be nice - so "values" are nothing special - and then the problems go away.  Now if we want to open up that discussion I'm all for that - but making a different model for different object types is an area I think we should avoid.  Tim.