I don’t understand. It’s my fault for going so off topic, we should follow up in another thread (Edit: here).
@trwnh, yes! I agree we could make the IRI object value of an update means something like “always means fetch complete replacement” in both S2S and C2S. There’s temporal things to think about too though, since the Update is no longer synchronous with the actual changed object (so multiple cumulative data changes could accidentally be fetched at once). Since the spec is silent on the issue, we would need to get a general consensus on such a convention.
I’m happy to have go-fed support a rule like that, as long as backwards compatibility is supported for the existing rules about inlined values.
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