OOB

OOB is an acronym for out of band. In TWiki terms, any meta-data which is stored embedded in topics is referred to as being stored in-band. The advantage of storing data in-band is that all the information relating to a topic is stored in one place, in a simple text format that is pretty much bulletproof. The advantage of storing meta-data out-of-band is that revisions to the meta-data are then decoupled from the topic revision history, so meta-data can refer to specific revisions. Out-of-band storage of meta-data is also significantly more efficient.

-- Contributors: CrawfordCurrie - 21 Aug 2006

Discussion

This is a definition topic, so I moved some discussion about the pros and cons of OOB in TWiki to a happier home, in an active discussion in HierarchicalAccessControl