Re: [alto] PID Properties in ALTO

Hi,

I agree we should support it. I am just not sure we need it the base
protocol, though, as it can easily be specified as an extension.

Bye,
Robert

On 05/27/11 18:48, Richard Alimi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Okay, third and final thread for discussion today :)  Another proposed
> extension to the ALTO protocol has been to associate properties (like
> we currently have with Endpoints) with PIDs.
>
> A proposed use case in draft-penno-alto-cdn was to indicate what types
> of endpoints lived within a single PID. A more general mechanism to
> support this would be to allow properties to be associated with a PID
> as whole. In one light, this could be seen as an efficient way to
> query for the properties of all endpoints within a PID (in which
> membership in the PID determines the value of the property). It could
> also be used to attach some semantic meaning to a PID (instead of
> being an opaque identifier) in particular deployments.
>
> One way to support this would be to provide an additional "PID
> Property" service, with a similar structure to the Endpoint Property
> Service. Basically, it would amount to defining a registry, allowing
> an ALTO Server to indicate its supported properties via capabilities,
> defining encodings for the request and response, etc.
>
> Thoughts about supporting this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
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