Re: [core] draft-ietf-core-resource-directory-07

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Hi Hannes,

thank you for this extremely useful review.
Many great observations, both around terminology and presentation, and
around the relationship to other efforts such as authorization.
Something to chew on for Buenos Aires...

Let me pick one item as it has a direct bearing on the meeting agenda:

Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> The document notes that there is an open issue regarding patch (see
> Section 5.6). What exactly is the question that needs to be answered?

The question is simply whether we will be able to finish adding the
PATCH methods to CoAP (see draft-vanderstok-core-etch) on the same
timeline as the time needed for completing the RD document.  Some of us
are optimistic that this is possible, some think the way to use PATCH
with RD should be added as a separate document.  But for the discussion
of the functionality of the RD, it makes sense to keep the PATCH
functionality in context, assuming we can always take out section 5.6
even at a late stage if we run into a problem with PATCH.
That's why it is part of -07.

Grüße, Carsten