I'd always assumed that was allowed already :-) so making it explicit in the spec is fine with me. Ben
On 15 May 2013, at 17:53, Richard Alimi <[email protected]> wrote: > One clarification to this. > > Along with this change, in order to retain the ability for an ALTO Server > referring to a set of resources in another IRD, we would also like to allow > an IRD entry to point directly to another iRD. This would basically mean > that there would be entries specifying the media type of > "application/alto-directory+json". Without this, it would force an ALTO > Server to explicitly list all resources at the other server, and we thought > that would be coupling them too tightly. > > Thanks, > Rich > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Richard Alimi <[email protected]> wrote: >> When we started specifying the format of the Information Resource Directory >> (IRD), one concern was the overall size. As such, we designed mechanisms to >> allowed a single entry in the IRD to specify that it could handle multiple >> media types (both in the request and could provide multiple media types). >> Based on some recent (off-list) discussions with Wendy, this may be less of >> a concern and we may want to go for simplicity. >> >> Here's an example of one entry we have now: >> >> { >> "uri" : "http://custom.alto.example.com/maps";, >> "media-types" : [ >> "application/alto-networkmap+json", >> "application/alto-costmap+json" >> ], >> "accepts" : [ >> "application/alto-networkmapfilter+json", >> "application/alto-costmapfilter+json" >> ] >> } >> >> The proposal is to have each entry declare exactly one media-type for the >> response, and either 0 or 1 media types for the request (e.g., the >> unfiltered cost map doesn't need anything in the request - it's a simple >> GET). >> >> Here's what the corresponding entry from above would look like: >> >> { >> "uri" : "http://custom.alto.example.com/maps";, >> "media-type" : "application/alto-networkmap+json", >> "accepts" : "application/alto-networkmapfilter+json", >> }, { >> "uri" : "http://custom.alto.example.com/maps";, >> "media-types" : "application/alto-costmap+json", >> "accepts" : "application/alto-costmapfilter+json", >> } >> >> >> The editors think this is a reasonable change to make. Comments are very >> welcome. >> >> >> >> >> Since we are on a tight schedule here, if we don't hear anything within the >> next week (by May 21st), we will make the corresponding changes to the draft. >> >> Thanks! >> Rich > > _______________________________________________ > alto mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
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