- From: WJCarpenter <bill@carpenter.ORG>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:40:34 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>> > 3. Organizing an interoperability event >> >> Why? I know bake offs are popular but WebDAV seems to have been >> having a continual back off for months now just by having folks put >> their implementations on the net. Unless I have seriously missed >> something it seems to work damn well. jw> While it's true there have been lots of good experiences testing jw> clients and servers over the net, with each server having a test jw> location at a known address, these tests have been limited in some jw> ways. Existing clients don't test the full range of capabilities jw> of WebDAV -- none use PROPPATCH, and Depth locking is not used jw> either. So, one purpose of such an event would be to do more jw> thorough compiance testing, as well as just interoperability. jw> But, still, this could potentially be done remotely. Another important purpose of a bake-off, whether held in a single location or done over a wide area, is to get demonstrable buy-in from the purveyors of clients and servers. In the context of a mailing list, it's just too easy for someone to Keep-Their-Mouth-Shut when problems with a particular implementation are mentioned. If that happens in the context of a bake-off, the silence or non-participation can in and of itself be interpreted as a statement of intent. It's both a cultural and a process difference. This is not a hypothetical problem for WebDAV. -- bill@carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP bill@bubblegum.net 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3
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