Re: [Rum] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-rum-rue-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Subject: Re: [Rum] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-rum-rue-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Rob I submitted a -10 which I hope is satisfactory to you. Brian > On Dec 23, 2021, at 4:16 PM, Brian Rosen <br@brianrosen.net> wrote: > > Thank you for your comments. Please see inline > >> On Dec 15, 2021, at 7:37 AM, Robert Wilton via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote: >> >> Robert Wilton has entered the following ballot position for >> draft-ietf-rum-rue-09: Discuss >> >> When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all >> email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this >> introductory paragraph, however.) >> >> >> Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/blog/handling-iesg-ballot-positions/ >> for more information about how to handle DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. >> >> >> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rum-rue/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> DISCUSS: >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> There are a couple of points related to versioning that I would like to see >> clarified, but I hope that it should be fairly easy to do so. >> >> 1. >> This means an implementation of a >> specific major version and minor version is backwards compatible with >> all minor versions of the major version. >> >> Is it actually compatible with all other minor versions, or only other minor >> versions with a greater minor version number. E.g., could an implementation be >> coded to use/expect a object added in a minor version but that is not present >> in preceding minor versions? > All other minor versions. > > It has to be truly optional. You can do things like add two parameters, a and b, and say if a is provided b must be provided, but it has to work if neither are there, and even if an implementation provided a but not b, an earlier version would ignore a. > >> >> 2. >> The configuration API also provides the same version mechanism as >> specified above in Section 9.1. The version of the configuration >> service MAY be different than the version of the provider list >> service. >> >> It wasn't obvious to me, that for a given provider, how this is communicated. >> I'm not that familiar with OpenAPI, but looks like the /Versions path is a top >> level API path, and the data that is contains seems to just be version numbers. >> Hence, how would a client know which versions apply to provider list service >> and/or which versions apply to the provide configuration service. > ‘ > First of all, the Provider list is not available at alll providers. It’s only available at a service that is one per country. So one entity normally doesn’t supply both the Provider and the ProviderConfig entry points. > To be really pedantic, I suppose that it’s actually possible for it to be one entity, and then that statement that there are separate versions wouldn’t apply. So I guess I will change the text to: > Unless the per-country provider list service is operated by a provider at the same base URI as that provider’s configuration service, the version of the configuration service MAY be different from the version of the provider list service. > >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> COMMENT: >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Hi Brian, >> >> Thank you for working on this. This technology is quite a long way outside of >> my expertise, and hence my review is primarily focused on the Configuration >> section (section 9). >> >> Nit: when used with the following interface => when used with the following >> OpenAPI interface > Fixed >> >> Nit: with a corresponding a entry point -> with a corresponding entry point > Fixed >> >> Minor version definitions >> SHALL only add objects, non-required members of existing objects, and >> non-mandatory-to use functions and SHALL NOT delete any objects, >> members of objects or functions. >> >> Would "delete or change" be more correct than just "delete" here? > Added “or change" >> >> Somewhat related to the discuss comment, but it wasn't clear to me why the >> versioning is described as part of the "Rue Provider Selection" section and I >> think that the document would arguably be clearer if the versioning moved to >> its own separate 9.X section, making it clear that the versioning applies to >> the entire API? > I will do that > >> >> Nit: The method the API Key is obtained is not specified in this document. => >> Perhaps "The method used to obtain the API key …" > Fixed >> >> The provider MAY refuse to provide service to an implementation >> presenting an API Key it does not recognize. >> >> Why is this not a MUST? > Well, suppose a provider doesn’t implement an API key, but the client supplies one. That would not be recognized by the provider, but it doesn’t care, so it provides service. > >> >> Is the "instance-identifier" arbitrarily chosen by the client? Otherwise, it >> wasn't clear to me how a client would discover or know what >> "instance-identifier" to use. It might be helpful if the text clarified this, > I added that text > >> and possibly even the parameter name could be changed to make it more obvious >> that it is a client provided value? > “clientInstanceId” wouldn’t help. It would have to be “clientProvidedInstanceId”. That seems to be a bit much as a parameter name. I’ll do it if you think it’s important, but I’m inclined to just leave the explanatory text specifying that it’s client provided. >> >> Regards, >> Rob
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- Re: [Rum] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-r… Brian Rosen
- Re: [Rum] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-r… Brian Rosen
- Re: [Rum] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-r… Rob Wilton (rwilton)