Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 09 April 2021 05:15 UTC

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> On 9 Apr 2021, at 3:10 pm, Jay Daley <jay@ietf.org> wrote:
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> The former, which I personally think is the right way to go about it, with various clients to those central APIs to support the different modes above.  However, I know that Robert for one has a different view. 

I think I agree with Robert here, but I'd like to understand what's driving towards centralisation. If there's some 'source of truth' necessary, an API might make sense; however, my current mental model is that the tools should operate on well-documented formats, which can live in a variety of places (e.g., data tracker, my local disk, GitHub, a server somewhere).

Cheers,

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