Currently the Browse service returns child NodeIds that match criteria but does not return additional information about the child. This results in browsers such UaExpert to preface all child nodes with an expando symbol ">". This forces the user to click on all nodes to see what they contain, and in cases where the node has no children all that happens is the expando symbol is removed. This wastes time and is frustrating to users.

Other use cases: if the node is a Variable the application needs information about the child's data type, ValueRank, ArrayDimensions, etc. Current service APIs require separate Browse requests followed by Read requests to gather this data. This is very chatty and slow, and can overload the server.

Proposed Solution: extend the Browse Request service to include additional arguments to request data such as References and values related to Variables, and extend the Browse Replay data to include the extra data. This new or extended service should be optional.
This can be defined as a separate Conformance unit so that it is identified as an optional feature and tested for compliance with the CTT.