1 Definition
An Item containing the type of information requested about an Item or a Process.
2 Functional Requirements
Inform should support:
- The needs of humans and Processes to communicate to a Service their needs to request Information about Processes and Items.
- Rich form of Information requests and responses.
- Information requests and responses shall use the same Qualifiers.
3 Syntax
https://schemas.mpai.community/MMM4/V1.0/data/Inform.json
4 Semantics
Label | Size | Description |
Header | N1 Bytes | Inform Header |
– Standard | 9 Bytes | The characters “MMM-INF-V” |
– Version | N2 Bytes | Major version – 1 or 2 characters |
– Dot-separator | 1 Byte | The character “.” |
– Subversion | N3 Byte | Minor version – 1 or 2 characters |
M-InstanceID | N4 Bytes | Identifier of M-Instance. |
InformID | N5 Bytes | Identifier of Inform Item. |
InformData | N6 Bytes | Set of Inform Data |
– InformFormatID | N7 Bytes | ID of Inform Format |
– InformDataLength | N8 Bytes | Length of Inform Data |
– InformDataURI | N9 Bytes | URI of Inform Data |
DescrMetadata | N11 Bytes | Descriptive Metadata |
5 Data Formats
MPAI assumes that different Inform Services will use different Inform Formats.
6 To Respondents
MPAI requests:
- Comments on Functional Requirements of the Inform Item.
- Proposals for an initial list of Inform Formats.