Hi Michael, Sorry for getting back to this so late: I have been caught on a spiral of corporate commitments really difficult to get rid of...
We can discuss about those of my statements you don't agree with and those of your statement I don't agree with in front of a couple of beers along next meeting. I think your proposal on an appendix makes sense. Let's go for it and make things happen. Be goode, On 19 Nov 2012, at 17:54 , Scharf, Michael (Michael) wrote: > Diego, all, > > I won't give further pushback, even if I don't agree to quite a number of > your statements. Just one further example to explain why SWD won't solve all > problems: Even if we replace U-NAPTR by HTTP(S), according to RFC 5986, the > ALTO client still needs access to DHCP options, which is yet another > non-HTTP(S) interface to care about. > > For what it is worth, I am convinced both a DNS-based and a HTTP(S) solution > can be engineered, each with pros and cons. Yet, the former variant is much > better understood in the IETF, and I fail to see a fundamental benefit of SWD > that would compensate this. > > In order to move forward, if this helps to sort this issue, I think that we > could add a non-normative section to the current draft (or, better, an > appendix) that discusses an alternative HTTP-based discovery, in case that > such a solution gets widely used in future. It could for instance summarize > pros and cons according to this e-mail thread, and leave it up to a future > document to standardize this variant (possible, after the mechanism is better > worked out in the IETF). It is pretty clear anyway that the current ALTO > discovery specification does not address all possible use cases of ALTO (cf. > third party discovery). > > Any thoughts on that proposal? > > Michael -- "Esta vez no fallaremos, Doctor Infierno" Dr Diego R. Lopez Telefonica I+D http://people.tid.es/diego.lopez/ e-mail: di...@tid.es Tel: +34 913 129 041 Mobile: +34 682 051 091 ----------------------------------------- ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at: http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx _______________________________________________ alto mailing list alto@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
