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The real-life scenarios can be more subtle. If, for example, you might expect that if you created an OsidObject and looked up the new Id you would see what you just created. While this may work with certain OSID Providers under controlled conditions there is nothing in the specification that says what you created is what you see. There is nothing in the specification that says it couldn't have been deleted in the meantime. This is a behavioral but not a compliance characteristicissue.
Freedom to Provide
The point of the OSIDs is to foster interoperability among different components designed and written for very different circumstances. Anything goes.
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