Re: Use of .well-known for CSV metadata: More harm than good

Just a minor fact:

> On 22 Jun 2015, at 05:08 , Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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> You can specify a heuristic for the 404 to be interpreted on the *client* side; it tells consumers that if there's a 404 without freshness information, they can assume a specified default.

The CSVW mechanism planned for the .well-known case includes this. If the .well-known file is not available, there is a default defined in the spec (which leads to CSV metadata files residing in the same directory as the original CSV file).

Ivan


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