Expires attribute in FLUTE FDT

"Mark Watson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rmt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
All,

 

It appears that the syntax of this attribute is not specified in either
RFC 3926 or draft-itef-rmt-flute-revised-01 except to say that it is a
string.

 

This is something of an omission.

 

The general approach and indeed recommendation in the FLUTE spec is that
FDT attributes use the same syntax as their eponymous HTTP headers,
which would suggest a format for Expires of e.g. "Thu, 01 Dec 1994
16:00:00 GMT" for this string (See <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
section 14.21 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt%20section%2014.21> >)

 

However, this doesn't align with the examples in FLUTE or the
draft-mehta-rmt-flute-iop-05, which show a decimal number, presumably an
NTP timestamp.

 

Suggestions ?

 

Best regards,

 

Mark Watson

Digital Fountain

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