[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Top up

[Simon Poole]

PS: btw this specific proposal is also "interesting" as it introduces
mixed case keys, which in general have been considered nonos.

Am 27.12.2018 um 11:44 schrieb Simon Poole:
> There is a substantial difference between tagging a limited set of
> physical properties (and yes clearly some of this could have been done
> as a list too)  that are known in advance vs. moving an essentially
> unbounded list of fantasy names in to key space.
>
> The argument that semi-colons shouldn't be used is specious, what is
> correct is that the semantics of a key with a list should be documents,
> but once that has been done there is no reason not to do so.
>
> As to the argument with recording non-supported vendors 99.9% of this is
> simply whataboutism, if you can really make a case that you need to
> explicitly record that instead of relying on default semantics, you can
> simply add a key for that.  
>
> Am 26.12.2018 um 16:46 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 26. Dec 2018, at 15:08, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tag-proposals in the form
>>> <tag_attr_name>:<type_value->[:<subtype_value>]=yes/no should be
>>> avoided. It's shifting values to attribute names!
>> it’s not a value, it‘s a property ;-)
>> it depends on your interpretation, e.g. motorroad=yes 
>> oneway=yes
>>
>> aren’t these values and we should tag them 
>> road_restrictions=motorroad;oneway?
>>
>>
>> top_up:phone=yes
>> means: provides phone top up.
>> For practical reason, I would expect a scheme 
>> characteristic_I_need_to_know=yes/no
>>
>> much easier to evaluate than one like:
>> some_services=foo;characteristic_I_need_to_know;bar
> This is being directly disingenuous, because what is a actually being
> proposed is
>
> characteristic_I_need_to_know:random_string=yes
>
> .... 1000+ more random strings.
>
>
>>
>> Cheers, Martin 
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