Bootstrapping discovery

[Martin P Pain <martinpain@uk.ibm.com>]

I have updated OSLCCORE-9 with a description
of the problem, the benefit of addressing it, and 2 specific proposals:
https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OSLCCORE-9

Kind regards,

Martin Pain
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<oslc-core@lists.oasis-open.org> wrote on 12/05/2015
10:08:19:

> From: Martin P Pain/UK/IBM@IBMGB
> To: Jim Amsden <jamsden@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: OASIS OSLC Core TC Discussion List <oslc-core@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Date: 12/05/2015 10:08
> Subject: RE: [oslc-core] OSLC Core 3.0 Discovery
> Sent by: <oslc-core@lists.oasis-open.org>
> 
> " 
> 2. TODO: in Conformance section needs to be completed with Discovery
> specific conformance. For example, are all OSLC Core 3.0 servers 
> required to support discovery? I added some statements regarding conformance.
> [martin] You mentioned this at the last meeting and I think it's an
> important question for all of our members to consider. Personally
I 
> agree. If you're not going to support discovery then how much better
> than simple REST are you? There is still a bootstrapping issue - 
> where do you start your discovery? I'm still not clear on that. 
> <jra>Discovery is started with OPTIONS on a (root) LDPC.</jra>
> "
> 
> I raised https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OSLCCORE-9
for looking
> at bootstrapping discovery. 
> 
> In response to your comment in this email jim, I added a comment there
saying:
> 
> " 
> Jim said "Discovery is started with OPTIONS on a (root) LDPC".
> 
> I don't like that, as it raises the question "how do you find
the root LDPC?"
> 
> The client most likely gets its first URL from the user. The user
is
> most likely to have a web UI URL to hand, and ideally we won't force
> them to go looking for another one. This is the train of thought 
> I've tried to address in my email 
> "
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> Martin Pain
> Software Developer - Green Hat
> Rational Test Virtualization Server, Rational Test Control Panel
> 
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