* Shawn Walker <[email protected]> [2009-02-17 18:29]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>> * Shawn Walker <[email protected]> [2009-02-17 17:53]:
>>> * Whether multiple authorities can be present in the output of authority/0.
>>
>>   Maybe--I don't think we went through this use case in full.  I do want
>
> Sorry, I appear to have confused the ability to specify related 
> authority/origin URLs with multiple authorities in the output of 
> authority/0.
>
> Put differently:
> Is it assumed that there is a 1:1 relationship between authority and 
> repository?

  We aren't assuming this--we know it will be at least 1:N.  Versatility
  for deployment suggests that the depot should allow M:1, so the
  top-level URL the depot serves could offer versions/0 and authority/0
  operations.  A document format that permits multiple authorities to be
  defined seems to be legitimate in any case.

>>   to check on the types of the various fields in the authority/0
>>   response.  There are a couple of fields that I believe need to be
>>   list-valued, where the current implementation would only consider
>>   a single value for the field as relevant.
>
> Does "current implementation" refer to the authority/0 proposal?

  No, it refers to what we have today, prior to authority/0.  (As an
  example, we only allow a single origin server per authority.)  Reading
  5871, I'm mostly concerned about why authority_name isn't required,
  and by the growing set of booleans.

  - Stephen

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