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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:22:11 +0000

[...] you wanna know what is going on for OCCI right now: We had a lot of blog posts, mails, etc going [...]

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andy.edmonds.be › links for 2009-10-22 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:35:52 +0000

[...] William Vambenepe Missing out on the OCCI fun (tags: occi headers) [...]

By: Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:34:12 +0000

I've created issue #39 to track the inclusion of a "critical" flag. Sam

By: Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:19:58 +0000

William,

Thanks again for your contribution from the sidelines – it’s great to hear from the likes of yourself and Tim Bray, and to see OCCI finally starting to get some external attention.

In answer to your “question”, OCCI implementations:
– mustIgnore but preserve foreign markup (following Atom’s example) – though it may be worth considering adding a “critical” or “mustUnderstand” flag
– use a hierarchical namespace and/or URI schemes for safe extension (following Firefox’s about:config example)
– use simple datatypes (e.g. string, integer, etc.) or refer to an external (possibly binary) format by way of LINKs
– go in the HTTP headers (where they belong according to the HTTP spec we are trying to follow as closely as possible)

Loved the “Commedia dell standarte” post too by the way…

Sam