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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Normal
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NGS - Beta 1
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None
With the current Musicbrainz system you have to specify a clientid (consisting of application name and version) when submitting puid/mbid pairs but not for submitting another data or for retrieving data from the web service.
I think this idea should be introduced for all retrieval and submission of data, but it needn't be mandatory. Might need a more sophisticated authentication method then that the current system. This would give following advantages:
1. Would be useful for Musicbrainz and Software providers to seem how much traffic their application is generating.
2. Would allow requests/submissions from an app to be blocked by Musicbrainz or because at the request of the application provider if they realised there was an issue with a particular version of their app.
3. Could enable different service level for different applications.
we no longer do puid, the webservice is much more modern, this ticket predates NGS! check if this is still valid