- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:04:33 -0700
- To: WEBDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> At 3:20 PM -0400 9/25/98, Jim Whitehead wrote: > >While I agree that using a Vgraph places some restrictions on > the solution > >space, I doubt they're as restrictive as you're making them out to be. A > >version graph approach does rule out sums of changes approaches > similar to > >those used in the PIE system. In these systems, a user > constructs the state > >of each object by adding together various changes (e.g., start with > >baseline, add bug fix #43, add bug fix #56, add operating system upgrade > >patch). > > > >But, I don't think this is what you're proposing WebDAV adopt. > > On the other hand, this is one of the things that I was very > concerned that > the initial version requirements _not prevent_. The change-oriented > approach to collaboration is rapidly becoming mainstream in the CSCW > research world (5 papers in the upcoming conference this November). > > Web collaboration should be at least as suitable for document editing as > software versioning. One of my major concerns with a change-oriented approach is that it tends to assume the system has a lot of content-type-specific knowledge, and it tends to assume you're dealing with text-like objects. This is contrary to one of the underlying design principles of the Web, which is that operations are media-type independent. - Jim
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