Re: [apps-discuss] New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-link-hint-00.txt

hello mark.

On 2013-06-25 02:46 , Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Please have a look at the draft; the level of detail in the registrations is "a number" or "a list" or (infrequently) "an object" -- roughly on par with saying that a field in a registry is "an integer," which is quite common in IANA-land.
> On 25/06/2013, at 7:36 PM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As a question: what makes you think this wouldn't be very likely to result in erroneous registrations? (Damaging the effectiveness of this registry but also possibly the IANA function, a bit)

i really like the places where it says "a number" and "a list", because 
these concepts can be easily mapped into pretty much any representation. 
when it says "an object", however, that's an entirely different matter. 
it would be great for the registry to really be clear about what kind of 
structures to expect for hints (single values, value lists, and maybe 
lists of key/value pairs or something along those lines), and then the 
registry would not depend on a specific language.

cheers,

dret.

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