We talked a bit on IRC but wanted to respond here too.
I think it can be summarized briefly like this, I think:
In S4, Vobjects had an ordered list of named child links to other
Vobjects, one type of which was a Property. In the proposal, Vobjects
have an unordered set of named properties, one
Why the current s5 design for "embedde children" doesn't work...
Background.
A key aspect of the design of VOS s3 and s4 is the parent/child list.
This is an associative array of name/value pairs, where the value is a
link to another vobject. This list of outgoing links plays a key role
in V