[occi-wg] OCCI Categories and Types

[Ralf Nyren]

>> I think such a namespace policy for attributes would be useful for the
>> examples in the spec and related documents as well. An example is much
>> easier to understand if the contents is well defined.
>
> AE: yep I agree with all of this - @Ralf would you be willing to place  
> this up on the wiki under a page named something along the lines of  
> "Extensions"

Will do.

>> If just for the purpose of the example I can somewhat agree. Otherwise I
>> would say the Content-type header only reflect the body and not what  
>> kind
>> of information you happen to have in the header.
>
> IMO, header and body are explicitly linked by content type - e.g. HTML -  
> content type is specified as HTML in the header and the body will  
> reflect this. It doesn't make sense to specify HTML as the content type  
> in the header and then send a JPEG ;-)

Ah, but you misunderstand. In the examples you are using only headers (no  
body) and thus, IMO, the content-type is irrelevant.

regards, Ralf