Re: [core] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-hartke-core-pending-02.txt

[Klaus Hartke <[e-mail]>]

Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> The current version does not try to extend one already dedicated response code or create a new one.
>
> No, but the draft seems to bend the semantics of existing response codes?

Not really. Or, at least, it shouldn't, although it appears a bit like
it due to the renamed response codes.

The idea is just that the content-format encourages the client to
poll/observe until it gets another content-format.

This should work with unaware intermediaries; only the two ends need
to understand it.

> I think that is mainly a problem with 2.02, which means the resource is gone, but in this case it isn’t really gone just yet?

Good point. Maybe we should restrict it to GET, PUT, and POST?

> I’d rather provide that information in the body (the actual media type behind the content-format needs to be defined, anyway).

The content-format is defined to be absent or a human-readable
diagnostic message (second to last paragraph in Section 2). It might
be worth being able to include application-specific status
information, but I don't have a good idea yet how to indicate the
content-format of that.

Klaus