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 > > - Bill Roome > > > _______________________________________________ > alto mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto >
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