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> How about this compromise: We define a small set of "encodings" for
> fields, that can be used for operations like comparison and whatever
> Oskar and Scott have in mind (which I still don't quite understand).
> But the spec makes it clear that name==type, and all applications
> are forbidden to modify, delete, or add fields based on nothing but
> these encodings, and that these encodings must all be representable
> and fully transportable as strings, so that applications treating
> them as such will not lose information.  Every field's purpose is
> defined totally and exclusively by its name, and only one encoding
> is allowed for any defined type.

I still don't like name==type.  That enforces the idea that the
application has to understand every field.  

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