Re: [NSIS] NSLP versioning

Hi John, Martin, Robert, and, all

>> The issue here is whether an NSIS initiator should have the 
>> ability to ask with a single request message for multiple, 
>> different NSLP version.
>> This would require a single general NSLP-ID per NSLP and a 
>> version information with the NSLP itself.
>>
>> I do not know if this issue is solvable by now or if it should 
>> be handled in the NSLP extensibility draft. Since we have only 
>> a single version anyway of each NSLP.
> 
> Is there anyone requesting this feature, it sounds extremely messy to
> actually get working.

I'm actually opposed to supporting such a version negotiation
feature. There are quite a lot of options and cases one could
imagine. I guess it's a good example of applying the
e2e argument again: the application itself should decide
which version is suitable instead of building a version negotiation
feature into GIST. Thus, it would be free to probe
versions in any order it likes given the current NSLP-IP -> version
one-to-one mapping. Furthermore, we have the limited exensibility
for yet unknown objects within each version. I guess that's flexible
enough.

Regards,
 Roland

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