[Bug 586] - resolve validation problem with missing keys

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------- Additional Comments From peter.mccartney at asu.edu  2002-09-12 16:19 -------
needless to say, im one of the ones that is not wild about id's being 
required. when we agreed on the identifier/reference thing, it was with the 
understanding that one could produce an eml with duplicated content or choose 
to use identifiers. 

I think eml should be about content, not schemas. to me, all this keyref stuff 
is about enforcing one opinion on the mangement of similar information within 
one document - it has nothing to do with content standards. If we're facing a 
problem caused by key refs that is going to force everyone to have to create 
documents following this narrower opinion, I would sooner leave them optional 
and let external software do the enforcing. In order to used them effectively, 
youre dependent on software to manage them anyways.