<as individual> So, you think you understand how to write location sensitive discovery for a specific service?
You think you thoroughly understand how it works, what the pitfalls are, where you need flexibility? Further, you think that every service that needs location sensitive discovery should invent its own mechanism and every jurisdiction (read country) should support who knows how many equivalent - but different, mechanisms? Or, maybe, you could allow that a group of very smart people spent a great deal of time working out how location sensitive services should be discovered, and tried to come up with one mechanism that would work for a very wide variety of services. I mean, why limit encoding to XML or JSON? Why don't we come up with our own encoding? See in line for responses to the questions you asked On Aug 27, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Don Joslyn <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: So if you use JSON for LoST, are you really supporting the LoST standard as it’s currently written? Standards evolve. We can evolve LoST if it'd decided that it's useful and doesn't screw up existing systems. Is there any chance that PAWS could use an existing LoST server? Sure Does one exist? Yes. It's still pretty early though. If one does not exist, then I’m assuming that someone would need to implement a LoST server for use by PAWS devices, correct? Maybe. In most places, I'd say, probably Would it then make sense to implement it with JSON, even though the standard as written uses XML? Sure, why not, assuming we have a good reason to use JSON for whitespace Maybe somebody should take a look at the XML messages described in the LoST protocol, to determine how easy it will or will not be to convert them to JSON. I'm not a JSON expert, but I doubt it would be hard. I'll ask an expert. Maybe we should just forget about using LoST, and go with the only discovery proposal that has been formally submitted to PAWS? Maybe we should stop re-inventing something that has already been invented and concentrate on things that need new work. Also, remember vCard/xCard - same arguments.
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