The COUNTER API should allow report providers to return the list of platforms supported by their COUNTER API server. This would not only be useful for report providers who want to make this information available, and for report consumers who want to harvest reports for specific platforms on which usage occured, but also for usage consolidation platforms that harvest COUNTER reports from multiple report provider platforms and offer a COUNTER API for access to the harvested reports.
This feature could be added as a common extension Platforms. The list of platforms should be customer specific if possible, which requires an authenticated API path, so extending /r51/status for this purpose is not an option. Therefore a new API path /r51/platforms is required for this extension.
Support for common extensions is optional, i.e. report providers could decide whether to support the extension or not.
The COUNTER API should allow report providers to return the list of platforms supported by their COUNTER API server. This would not only be useful for report providers who want to make this information available, and for report consumers who want to harvest reports for specific platforms on which usage occured, but also for usage consolidation platforms that harvest COUNTER reports from multiple report provider platforms and offer a COUNTER API for access to the harvested reports.
This feature could be added as a common extension Platforms. The list of platforms should be customer specific if possible, which requires an authenticated API path, so extending
/r51/statusfor this purpose is not an option. Therefore a new API path/r51/platformsis required for this extension.Support for common extensions is optional, i.e. report providers could decide whether to support the extension or not.