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The operations are design to have as many similarities and overlapping definitions as possible. For instance the getChecksums must work simmilar to Get. Paging of data and parameters must work in the same way. See dicussion on http://sbforge.org/display/BITMAG/Coordination+layer+design+discussion#Coordinationlayerdesigndiscussion-Overlapmedprotokolspecifikation.
Paging af requests
It must be possible to make paging of request parameters. Paging of parameters can for instance be the case for object ids in a random check of files. It is needed since we cannot assume that clients can make prior pagination. See dicussion on http://sbforge.org/display/BITMAG/Coordination+layer+design+discussion#Coordinationlayerdesigndiscussion-Pagingafrequests.
Software
Independence
In the design we need to ensure that we are as independent of the software chosen as possible. If special features are used, e.g. for optimisation, then the design must be flexible enough to skip use of the special features at a later stage.
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