- From: Fisher Mark <fisherm@tce.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:32:16 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>I have been meaning to complain about this for a while but didn't because >it seems to be trivial. I was having a hard time imagining anyone being so >picky as to insist on this point (and, perhaps, denying me the covetted >"100 % Pure DAV" sticker for my server?) but perhaps it's better to face it >now. In fact, this very issue has been raised in some discussions internal >to Xerox. People have said to me "We would like to support DAV methods in >this subtree but we don't want to support them on the root but the protocol >says we MUST do it, so can we still use DAV?". So Howie isn't the only one >worrying about it. > >I say, strike the restriction. Based on my experiences as a webmaster, I'd agree. I really don't see any prospect of webmasters wanting to have only root-based subtrees (like <URL:http://www.foo.com/bar/>) be DAV-compliant. DAV will work and play better with others if it can be restricted to non-root-based subtrees. Not that some servers won't want to be set up using DAV for all document management -- just that some (probably the majority) will not use DAV for all document management, for various political/social/technical reasons. > ========================================================== > Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics > fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN > "Browser Torture Specialist, First Class" >
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