1 Definition
An Item sent by a Process to a Service requesting information about an Item or Process (or their IDs) to obtain additional information on an Item or Process that is not otherwise available. The Service will respond with an Information response.
2 Functional Requirements
Information Request includes the Item or Process (or their IDs) of which Information is requested and other information proper of the Discovery Qualifier.
3 Syntax
https://schemas.mpai.community/MMM4/V2.0/data/Information.json
4 Semantics
| Label | Size | Description |
| Header | N1 Bytes | Information Header |
| – Standard-Information | 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. |
| InformationID | N5 Bytes | Identifier of Information Item. |
| InformationData | N6 Bytes | Set of Information Data |
| – InformationQualifier | N7 Bytes | Qualifier of Information Item |
| DescrMetadata | N9 Bytes | Descriptive Metadata |
