> I concur with Mike and would favour
> mending the standard.
I agree. But mending the standard takes years (literally).
My suggestions are merely work-arounds on how to make the best of the situation until a formal resolution can be found. Even if the standard is updated, a controller will still have to deal with responders that aren't updated to meet the new spec.
There's a similar problem with presets. You have no way to find out how many presets a given responder supports. I believe a resolution for this is under-way as part of E1.37.
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