Re: [alto] Info Resource Dirs, OPTIONS, 300 Multiple Choices and all that jazz ....

Bill Roome <w.roome@alcatel-lucent.com> Thu, 28 July 2011 16:33 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:33:10 -0400
From: Bill Roome <w.roome@alcatel-lucent.com>
To: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@commscope.com>, "alto@ietf.org" <alto@ietf.org>
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I would appreciate it if you could explain how my proposal increases the
coupling between the client and the server.

	- Bill

On 07/28/2011 11:09, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@commscope.com>
wrote:

>The idea that you propose - and your philosophy - violates one of the
>core tenets of RESTful design by increasing the coupling between client
>and server.
>