1 Definition
An Item sent by a Process to a Service as an Information Response Item requesting information about an Item or Process to obtain additional information on that Item or Process that is not otherwise available. The Service will respond with an Information Response Item.
2 Functional Requirements
Information Request Item includes the Item or Process (or their IDs) of which Information is requested and other information proper of the Service identified in the Discovery Qualifier.
3 Syntax
https://schemas.mpai.community/MMM4/V2.1/data/InformationObject.json
4 Semantics
| Label | Size | Description |
| Header | N1 Bytes | Information Header |
| – Standard-Information | 9 Bytes | The characters “MMM-IFO-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. |
| InformationID | N5 Bytes | Identifier of Information Item. |
| InformationRequestData | N6 Bytes | Set of Data in Information Request Item. |
| InformationResponseData | N6 Bytes | Set of Data in Information Response Item. |
| InformationQualifier | N7 Bytes | Qualifier of Information Item |
| DescrMetadata | N8 Bytes | Descriptive Metadata |
