Re: [dxwg] A short token to specify a profile may be used as long as there is a discoverable mapping from it to the profile's identifying URI [ID5] (5.5) (#290)

tokens do not require extra work for servers -they can simply not support them

tokens (in the context of conneg) require less work for clients that already use them (because servers do) because now there would be a way of automating finding  what they mean.

And as someone who is retrofitting an existing token based negotiation system, the proposed solution is the only option we've identified that seems workable - and its certainly easy enough. 


tokens require more work for servers that are using tokens already - in that to conform they need to self-describe the mappings - but less work than if they are forced to change APIS to support URIs - which is also a burden on existing clients.


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