Re: [weirds] Query Parameters

"Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com> Fri, 04 May 2012 16:26 UTC

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From: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
To: Andy Newton <andy@arin.net>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Newton [mailto:andy@arin.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 11:55 AM
> To: Hollenbeck, Scott
> Cc: weirds@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [weirds] Query Parameters
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> 
> > Maybe, I'm not sure. If I'm writing client code I would probably want
> to support as many query parameters as possible to work with as many
> servers as possible, and having all client query parameters specified
> in one document would probably be easier than having to worry about
> multiple documents. A server operator that doesn't support a particular
> type of query can just return an appropriate HTTP response.
> >
> > I guess I'm saying that I don't think we should be writing clients on
> a per-registry basis.
> 
> Good point. I still agree with Francisco's idea of separating search
> drafts out.

I do, too.

> Perhaps we should think about an Informational that describes
> everything and references all the drafts. I think the original URN
> working group did this.

That sounds like a good idea.

Scott