I'm in favor of returning the complete map, rather than generating a error.
Why? Because errors are annoying to implement, and they're annoying to
test in a bake-off. So whenever practical, I prefer to legislate errors
out of existence by using reasonable defaults.
- Wendy Roome
>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:03:56 +0000
>From: "Reinaldo Penno (repenno)" <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [alto] ALTO Protocol Outstanding Issue I: Specify behavior of
> degenerated map filtering service
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>Discussion I: Specify behaviors of degenerated map filtering service
>
>Do we enforce non-empty PID/AddressType? If protocol allows empty there
>are two possible design choices: default to complete map or reporting an
>Error
>
>Proposal going forward: Return complete Map.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Reinaldo
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