[Nmc-wg] Base doc

[Jason Zurawski]

Roman & All;

SVN is updated with your suggested changes, and I have added some 
comments in the tex files for items that are still outstanding.


>>> - I'm wondering whether we can say in 4.3.3 that the request with 
>>> more data triggers includes logical independent sub-requests
>>
>>
>> The concept of chaining is also something that Martin and I have 
>> struggled to find a proper location.  Chaining is explained in 
>> sections 5 and 6 of the above NM-WG document currently.  I think the 
>> basics should remain in NM-WG since the concept of the chain is 
>> essential to the definition of data and metadata.  We may be able to 
>> reference the basic concept though to motivate some of the more unique 
>> cases.
> 
> Agree. Main description in NM-WG doc and only the reference to it in 
> NMC-WG doc (with some additional information related with NMC).
> This way we'll keep consistency. Now I see two names for the same thing: 
> operation chaining (NM-WG doc) and filter chaining (NMC-WG doc).


There may be some consistency problems since these were written at 
different times.

Martin: what name where we going to stick with?  I can make the changes 
to either document when we decide.

-jason


> I'm also thinking that maybe filer chaining fits better into NMC-WG (it 
> deals more with action than data/metadata representation).