Agree with Patrick's points about rdapConformance in the help response
informing about all capabilities and rdapConformance being more specific for a
particular query response.
Jasdip
On 7/31/20, 12:29 PM, "regext on behalf of Patrick Mevzek"
<regext-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of p...@dotandco.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, at 11:21, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> Note "supported extensions". This is why I'm saying that we need to
> register all extensions with IANA
I agree.
> and include them in the
> rdapConformance data structure even if they don't describe a response
> extension.
I agree, everything should be listed in the reply to an help query.
I am just saying that for any other reply that is a specific one on a
specific resource
then the rdapConformance should just list the "extensions" needed to
understand this
specific response, and not list absolutely all extensions the server knows
about
(and that are irrelevant for this specific response).
The list of what is written in the response should certainly not be just
server policy,
especially if there is no automated way to learn about this policy.
Otherwise if you include
options like that (the list presented might be the list of all server
extensions OR only the subset needed for this specific response) AND there is
no way for the client to know which
case he is in, it immediately creates interoperability problems. I prefer
no such options
and the protocol clearly defining the content. Or if such options are
really needed
(if help response is always all extensions, and any other response is just
the specific extensions needed, then nothing more is needed), there should be
a signal to know which
case we are in.
> The help response should include supported
> extensions that are available to that client.
Yes, the help response allows to "discover" all possible extensions from a
specific client.
--
Patrick Mevzek
p...@dotandco.com
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