RE: Precepts of Goland

At 09:48 AM 1/4/00 -0800, Yaron Goland wrote:
>So Spoke Jim Davis:
>
>>... are we trying to
>> retroactively induce a consistent conceptual model for something that
>> already exists, or design something for the future?
>> 
>My own goal would be to establish what the object model for DAV SHOULD be.
>If that requires us to violate RFC 2518, so be it. That is why it is called
>a Proposed Standard. That means it can and will change. But, BTW, we should
>not be too ready to change RFC 2518. If we do we will be required, if not by
>IETF process then by common sense/market pressures, to make changes in such
>a way that RFC 2518 clients/servers can continue to operate correctly.

Great, that's just how I see it too.  So on with the precepts then.

Received on Wednesday, 5 January 2000 02:04:15 UTC