Re: /.well-known (RFC5785) vs versioned APIs [and EST/RFC7030]

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On Feb 25, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
DNS provides a limited form of REST (I know you have been working on retrofitting more of it), but it is not the real thing.  Why would I use DNS if I can use CoAP?

Because there’s a large infrastructure that supports it, and because services are discovered by consulting a single source that is updated as needed by services, rather than by surveying the set of all providers of service every time a service is sought.   And because it is something that nearly every non-IoT device on the network knows how to search for services.

As you say, this probably isn’t the place to discuss it, but at the same time I’ve noticed that it tends never to be discussed outside of constrained device/network circles, and I think that’s probably not good, so when you said what you said, I took the opportunity to question it in a larger venue. :)


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