Re: [core] draft-ietf-core-observe-05 - "obs"

Klaus Hartke <hartke@tzi.org> Sat, 21 April 2012 02:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] draft-ietf-core-observe-05 - "obs"
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Zach Shelby <zach@sensinode.com> wrote:
> The behavior of dealing with a polling-only resource vs. an observable resource is pretty different, and an observable resource might result in a different graphical representation to the user which needs to be known already during discovery.

That's an aspect I hadn't considered so far and find very useful.

Maybe we could expand section 7 of -observe a bit to give advice in
this direction?


Klaus