[MOBY-dev] data by reference - a request for comments

[Martin Senger]

> Perhaps we should make a statement of intendion before hammering out the
> details then ? ;-)


The first email in this thread says it (I believe):

Well, the first purpose (A) is obvious: we want to be able to deliver huge
> data from a service. So the service returns only a reference instead of the
> real data and the client can fetch the real data using some memory-friendly
> protocol (usualy a simple HTTP/GET).
>
> But it appeeared that it was not the only purpose. The second purpose (B)
> is to be able to send around already existing references (such as URLs of
> the EMBL or NCBI records).
>

Martin

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