On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 6:57 PM James Mitchell <james.mitch...@iana.org> wrote:
>
>
> The new gTLD Response profile 
> (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rdap-response-profile-21feb24-en.pdf)
>  says … “a value with the RDAP lookup path that generated the RDAP 
> response.”, requirements 2.6.3 and 2.10. Unless you are referring to another 
> document, this is quite different from the RDAP base URL. I would interpret 
> requests under this profile for /domains/EXAMPLE.COM and /domains/example.com 
> to set the link context to /domains/EXAMPLE.COM and /domains/example.com 
> respectively (or less contrived, lookups for /domain/xn--bcher-kva and 
> /domain/b%C3%BCcher to have different link contexts)
>

I was thinking of 2.4.6 which sets the link context to the Base URL of
the registrar, which seems mighty useful. I agree with your
interpretation of 2.6.3 and 2.10

>
>
> It seems a shame that the spec did not allow the undefined link context to be 
> interpreted as the request URI. However we are where we are and the link 
> context is now mandatory. If someone can shed some light on the utility of 
> the link context then I can look to support that with our server. Otherwise 
> I’ll likely hold onto on the RFC 7483 requirements for links.
>

What's the issue with setting it to the request URI?

-andy

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