in reply to A preview of DPAN

This one has a column for the author and might list the same namespace several times
Wouldn't it be better if the author-column is added to the end of each record, rather than as the second column? Programs who do not use this info then only look at the first three columns and forget about the last one. That would cause less breakage probably.

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