[ticker-dev] Timeout attribute

[Phillips, Matthew]

> I've added the following text to the section on Timeout:
> 
>     Note that this value was changed to use seconds, rather than
>     minutes, quite late in the standardisation process.  To minimise
>     the impact of this change on deployed applications, the following
>     guidelines are provided:
>     
>     For any message advertising a protocol version of 3001 or greater,
>     the value SHOULD be assumed to be in seconds.
>     
>     For messages with earlier versions, or that do not specify a
>     version, Timeout values of less than 60 or equal to 1440 MAY be
>     interpreted as a number of minutes.
>     
>     Similarly, implementations MAY generally refrain from sending
>     messages with timeout values of less than a minute, and for a
>     timeout of one minute, SHOULD use a value of 61.
> 
> Does that sound ok?

Sounds great.

>   Matthew> * We've gone back to "Attachment"? Not that I mind, but
>   Matthew> didn't we have an exchange which resulted in going from
>   Matthew> Attachment to MIME-Attachment a while ago? Also, using
>   Matthew> string disallows some MIME encodings. I'd be inclined to
>   Matthew> allow opaque or string for this field.
> 
> I have been in favour of using MIME-Attachment as a more specific name
> to more precisely reflect the value's semantics.
> 
> It was my impression, however, that the consensus was that a better
> solution was to use more general naming, and rely on collective
> agreement on the semantics (via an ontology, data-dictionary, etc).
> 
> So some time ago I'd changed the spec back to Attachment, thinking
> that it reflected the general mood of the community.
> 
> So speak up now if you favour MIME-Attachment!  Anyone?

Attachment gets my vote.

Matthew.