Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

On 7/27/16, 3:20 PM, 
"
 on behalf of Tom Scavo" 
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 on behalf of 
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 wrote:

> What's the difference? I'm talking about HTTP 304, not HTTP 404.

Well, one is an error, one is not.

> You are absolutely correct but I claim a two-week outage of the
> aggregates served from md.incommon.org has probability zero.

And I claim a two week outage of an MDQ service is pretty much also 
probability zero. Still not getting it. I really just missed the point of the 
example.

> From where I sit, aggregate distribution and per-entity distribution
> are like apples and oranges.

I do understand that one can tolerate outages that are an order of magnitude 
larger, but in terms of fundamental requirements, they're both potentially a 
highly redundant web presence serving static documents. That's apples and 
some other more expensive kind of apples to me.

But I seem to be in the minority on this, so maybe we could focus this 
discussion on your original subject line. What exactly do people need us to 
implement? At minimum, on-disk cache, clearly.

-- Scott