It appears that we have a consensus on this. Hence, we will update.

Richard


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Richard Alimi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Works for me.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Y. Richard Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It is very clean indeed. I do not see any problem for now, but will think
>> about it over night.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Ben Niven-Jenkins <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I like it. Ben
>>>
>>> On 17 Jul 2013, at 19:27, Wendy Roome wrote:
>>>
>>> > Folks,
>>> >
>>> > Since each IRD resource must have a unique ID, why not structure the
>>> > "resources" field of an IRD as a JSON dictionary, with the ID names as
>>> > keys?  Eg,
>>> >
>>> > "resources" : {
>>> >   "default-network-map": {
>>> >       "uri" : "http://alto.example.com/networkmap";,
>>> >       "media-type" : "application/alto-networkmap+json"
>>> >   },
>>> >   "numerical-routing-cost-map": {
>>> >       "uri" : "http://alto.example.com/costmap/num/routingcost";,
>>> >       "media-type" : "application/alto-costmap+json",
>>> >       "capabilities" : {
>>> >           "cost-type-names" : [ "num-routing" ]
>>> >       },
>>> >       "uses": [ "default-network-map" ]
>>> >   },
>>> >   ......
>>> >
>>> > Yes, that's a change. But that also forces the server to provide unique
>>> > ids. If not, you get a JSON parse error.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > That also makes it clear that a server's set of IRDs collectively
>>> define a
>>> > map from ids to resource descriptors. I suspect that when given an IRD,
>>> > most clients will build an in-memory map with he ids as keys, and will
>>> > follow any IRD links until they've added every resource to that table.
>>> >
>>> >       - Wendy Roome
>>> >
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