RE: REST Profile wd04

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RE: REST Profile wd04
Danny,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Thorpe [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:21 PM
> To: Sinnema, Remon
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> Subject: RE: REST Profile wd04
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> FWIW, I'm planning to implement a REST API on my policy repository
> server.  Thus my question about PDP fetching policies via a REST API.

I assumed that performance would be too much of an issue for a PDP to use a REST API to query the policies.


> So, we could define our own linkrel "root" to indicate the root of the
> policy tree instead of trying to repurpose one of the well-known
> linkrels?

Yes. Although, if we use a non-standard link relation, then we should either use a URI to avoid name clashes or register it.

I take it your question means you don't like the "up" proposal?


Thanks,
Ray