On 8 Aug 2014, at 09:06, Jan Seedorf <[email protected]> wrote:

>> (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.
> I agree with this assessment and am therefore in favour of the changes from 
> "MUST" to "MAY”.

+1

Ben

> 
> - Jan
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: alto [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Y. Richard Yang
>> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 6:05 AM
>> To: IETF ALTO
>> Cc: Megan Ferguson
>> Subject: [alto] Request for comments on two changes for RFC7285-to-be
>> 
>> 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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