Stephane, Michael,

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:34:27PM +0100, Scharf, Michael (Michael) wrote:
> Stephane,
> 
> Earlier versions explicitly had a reference to RFC 3958, explaining
> that ALTO discovery requires an URI as output.

this is still in section 1, third paragraph of our draft.

> 
> RFC 3958 states: "The expected output of this Application is the information 
> necessary for a client to connect to authoritative server(s) (host, port, 
> protocol) for a particular application service within a given domain."
> 
> That seems to prevent returning an URI as needed by ALTO, right?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:43 AM
> > To: Sebastian Kiesel
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: [alto] S-NAPTR? (Was: [[email protected]: I-D 
> > Action: draft-ietf-alto-server-discovery-07.txt]
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:27:42AM +0100,  Sebastian Kiesel 
> > <[email protected]> wrote  a message of 67 lines which said:
> > 
> > > this new version of the ALTO server discovery draft is based on the 
> > > feedback we got during WGLC.
> > 
> > I know it's late but I still have a question: why using 
> > U-NAPTR when S-NAPTR (RFC 3958) would be sufficient?
> > 
> > Both examples in the draft -07 use no left-hand part in the 
> > regexp (and I do not see what could be used for this part) 
> > and therefore would work with S-NAPTR.

Please have a look at the (cited) RFC 4848. Sec 4.6 says that
the only type of allowed regexp is a "complete replacement" regexp,
i.e., without backreference to some part of the input.


regards,
Sebastian
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