Re: [xri] XRD feedback from Scott

[Peter Davis <peter.davis@neustar.biz>]

On May 28, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> I am not sure how much we need to spell out the relation between the  
> transport caching directives to the document's expiration  
> directives. While they are used pretty much the same way, they have  
> slightly different semantic meanings. In practice, if used over  
> HTTP, the way the spec is written today is how it should be  
> implemented (the earliest expiration date of the two). Otherwise you  
> violate either HTTP or XRD (or both).
>
> Maybe we should simply say that clients should comply with the  
> caching rules of the transport used and leave it at that.

Yes, i think this makes the most sense.  any additional transport  
binding should specify their own processing rules for cases where  
there might be more than one cache instruction for a resource.

=peterd