On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Bill Roome <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> >Message: 4
> >Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 11:39:03 -0800
> >From: Richard Alimi <[email protected]>
> >..........
> >
> >The ALTO protocol used to have a reason that was free-form text.  Ted
> >Hardie suggested in his review that we drop this to avoid multi-language
> >issues (as Richard Yang pointed out).  We then removed the reason field.
>
> I wondered why the reason field was removed! However, that begs the
> question of whether a generic "Something's Wrong!" error code is better
> than a detailed description in a language that the ALTO user might not
> understand.
>
> I suggest restoring the "reason" string. If nothing else, a client
> implementer can send it to the ALTO service provider and ask them to
> translate it.
>

I'll leave this up to the WG.  I'd prefer to not go back and forth with
this.  I personally have no strong feelings one way or the other.

Rich


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