clarencen/lshift — Issue #58: Digest attributes should be sent as a map
Author: clarencen
Created: 2011-11-14 22:41:32+00:00
State: open

Currently we have the (potentially premature) optimization that partition attributes are sent out as a list of the values. The convention is that these values should be sent in the lexicographical order of the names these values pertain to. Whilst being terser, this approach is prone to buggy participant implementations and in some cases the false ordering could go unnoticed for quite some time. Hence we should reverse this optimization and make participants send a map of attributes to be as explicit as possible.