Dear ALTOnians, The authors of the ALTO Protocol are finalizing the final version, to be published as RFC 7285. We seek your comments/feedback on two non-editorial changes.
But first, the text, XML, and comprehensive diff files are available at: http://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc7285.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc7285.xml http://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc7285-diff.html A summary of the key changes is listed below: E1: the change from MUST to MAY in Section 7.1.1 E2: update from "misses" to "omits" in Section 8.5.2 E3: the addition of MUST and text addition to Section 10.8.1 E4: update from "both" to "either...or" in Section 11.2.3.6 E5: text update to Section 11.4.1.3, paragraph 1 E6: text deletion from Section 11.4.1.4. The deleted text is "In particular, the information resource closure MUST provide the look up of pid for every ALTO network map defined." The AD has approved all changes except E1 and E6, which are non-editorial. There are two reasons for E1 and E6: (1) Make the document consistent. Specifically, the first paragraph of Section 11.4.1 states that "An endpoint property resource provides information about properties for individual endpoints. It MAY be provided by an ALTO server." Without E1 and E6, the document will imply that at least one endpoint properties service (i.e., one to provide pid) must be provided. Hence, one way to achieve consistency is to change the MAY in the first para of 11.4.1 to be MUST. (2) However, some authors feel that we should not enforce too strong a requirement to make deployment harder. Hence, instead of changing the aforementioned MAY to MUST, these authors feel that it is better to make the pid endpoint property optional. Hence, we make the two changes of E1 and E6. Your comments and feedback will be greatly appreciated. We will wait for one week for any feedback. Thanks a lot. Richard
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