[oslc-core] oslc:totalSize Clarification

[Dave]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Scott Bosworth <bosworth at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> As pointed out before, the use of totalCount with paging of "other
> resources" seems a bit suspect. Do we really need to say that it SHOULD be
> the number of property values (triples)? Is this proposed definition useful?
> Is there a use case where someone is needing this capability? Seems like we
> are specing something that doesn't need to be spec'd. Maybe we should just
> say that totalCount is used in conjunction with query responses?

It is definitely useful in queries because it tells the user that she
may need to narrow down the query criteria.

It is also useful to clients attempting to retrieve all of a very
large resource's properties for one point in time via stable paging.

- Dave