David Conrad scripsit: > >Will you include a daily distributed status of these checks to > >avoid millions of unnecessary down loads. > > Hadn't considered it, but if this is desirable, IANA can publish > diffs of the registry updates. This is indeed a valid LTRU concern, because at the end of the RFC 4646bis process our registry will grow to about a megabyte. We definitely don't want to see widely distributed software hitting the iana.org server to download it daily or even more often, given that changes will be much more infrequent (based on history). This list has discussed several methods of avoiding such an outcome, from encouraging the use of the HTTP HEAD method or the If-Modified-Since header, to a separate file containing the most recent registry file date, to full provision of diffs. IANA clearly has a stake in the outcome of that conversation. (My opinion FWIW is that a separate short file containing just the file-date record, without full diffs, is the best and simplest proposal.) -- John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan [R]eversing the apostolic precept to be all things to all men, I usually [before Darwin] defended the tenability of the received doctrines, when I had to do with the [evolution]ists; and stood up for the possibility of [evolution] among the orthodox -- thereby, no doubt, increasing an already current, but quite undeserved, reputation for needless combativeness. --T. H. Huxley _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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