AI on mutability and PUT/PATCH

[Gilbert Pilz <gilbert.pilz@oracle.com>]

[append this paragraph to Section 5.5]

There are interactions between various HTTP methods and the "mutable" and "consumer_mutable" attributes that warrant some explanation. It is possible for a Consumer to cause the Provider to change the values of some mutable attributes to in response to a POST operation. For example, a successful POST to an operation resource could cause the Provider to change the value of the status attribute of the target resource. However, this does not mean that the status attribute of that target resource is "consumer mutable". Consumer mutability refers the to ability of the Consumer to directly alter the value of one or more attribute via the PUT or PATCH methods.

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I don't like that we are processing this outside the context of a specific issue. Should we reopen CAMP-180 or create a new issue?

~ gp