- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 00:32:21 PDT
- To: Jon Radoff <jradoff@novalink.com>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Document Management companies are doing a fine job of delivering web and java based applications that allow some kind of authoring and document management applications to run using standard web browsers. (There are dozens, I think; http://www.xerox.com/products/docushare/ is an example.) We don't need any additional standards work to allow such applications; as you say, they work with standard browsers. WEBDAV is trying to solve a different problem: a protocol level interface to sufficent capabilities for new versioning-based authoring applications to have direct access. Since we're looking for interoperability for a new set of functionality at the protocol level, we need standards for those new functions if we're really going to have interoperability. Larry
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