Re: [OPSAWG] Finding and Using Geofeed Data

[Massimo Candela <[e-mail]>]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your feedback.

> 
>> One thing that did stick out to me, though (and I don’t know how to
>> solve it) is when you talk about update frequency in section 5.  Okay,
>> don’t do frequent polls and don’t poll at midnight.  However, in the
>> case of something like the IETF conference network, how would
>> consumers know that this GeoFeed data _is_ likely to change and at a
>> certain periodicity?  The GeoFeed format doesn’t have any parsable way
>> to reflect that.  I don’t know if RPSL does.  Perhaps the remark:
>> could offer some clue as to when one might want to come and retaste?


> 
>    o could there be a signal on the server side, e.g. an expiry or
>      suggested poll frequency in the geofeeds file or in the pointer in
>      the rpsl?  for example, massimo is looking at html tags.

What I'm loking at is http cache max-age headers.
Since the geofeed file is served on http(s), that's free to achieve  
(like for any other file).


Ciao,
Massimo