Re: service link rel registration

>
> On 24/5/08 12:38 AM, "James M Snell"
<jasnellgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ordinarily, yes.  The purpose of the
rel="service" link, however, makes
>> that difficult.  The whole point of
rel="service" is to make it possible
>> to discover Atompub Service Documents, for which
there is only a single
>> media type.
>
> The whole purpose of Atompub Service Documents is to
enable a client to
> discover the capabilities and locations of the
available collections. It's
> reasonably possible that this information could be made
available in
> different formats. The *relationship* to documents
describing the
> capabilities and locations of the available collections
is the same,
> regardless of whether the format of the document is an
Atompub Service
> Document.
>
> e.
>

Although I don't disagree with you Eric, don't you think you
have
slightlty too many "if"? There has been no use
case that you describe yet
and considering that the service document is hardly publicly
displayed it
seems as reasonnable to narrow down to the AtomPub service
document.

- Sylvain

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Sylvain Hellegouarch
http://www.defuze.org

On 24/5/08 1:50 AM, "Sylvain Hellegouarch"
<shdefuze.org> wrote:

> Although I don't disagree with you Eric, don't you
think you have
> slightlty too many "if"?

There is only one "if" in my argument - the
possibility that the
capabilities and locations of the available collections
could be expressed
in formats other than Atompub Service Doc.

> There has been no use case that you describe yet
> and considering that the service document is hardly
publicly displayed it
> seems as reasonnable to narrow down to the AtomPub
service document.

What do you mean by "is hardly publicly
displayed"? Do you mean you would
see rel='service' and decide not to display that link in
a user interface
(unlike other links like rel='alternate')? Sounds
like a reasonable course
of action for service documents, regardless of their content
type .. if only
we had some way of indicating "this resource is a
service document, doesn't
matter what format it's expressed in" 

e.