- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:44:08 PST
- To: "Yaron Goland" <yarong@microsoft.com>, "'Slein, Judith A'" <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>, "Jim Davis" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> <Conclusion> > The easy conclusion is to declare that live properties are just bad design > and to ban them. But there are very serious problems in the HTTP protocol > which lead to WebDAV's property design. Until these issues are > addressed we can not realistically demand that people cease from > this bad design practice. > > I look forward to the day when these HTTP issues are resolved, alternative > mechanisms are provided for the functional data now in WebDAV and > we declare DAV's properties to be officially deprecated. > </Conclusion> I'm suggesting that we declare client dependence on non-standard operational live properties as "bad design" and declare such dependence as non-conformant. This will allow us to move forward carefully without large-scale deployment of non-interoperable software which purports to be "WebDAV" but in fact requires some dialect that isn't universally understood. Larry
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