- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:17:42 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
From: Yaron Goland <yarong@Exchange.Microsoft.com> Bill the answer for RFC 2518 is an unequivocal YES. What concerns me is that the sequence: "Is DELETE best effort? YES." will result in people believing that DELETE *must* be best effort, i.e. a server is required to delete everything it can, even if it actually knows (or could easily find out) that it cannot delete everything. What is being argued is if we should change that YES to a no. This will require issuing a new version of RFC 2518. Until such a new version is issued the answer is YES. BTW, Geoff, RFC 2518 already supports having the server refuse to change any of the members if it can't delete the root. I agree that this behavior is not forbidden by rfc2518, but I also believe some implementors will misinterpret in one direction (i.e. DELETE must be all or nothing) or in the other direction (i.e. DELETE must be best effort), so whatever answer we arrive at, we should make sure it is clearly stated in the next rev of rfc2518. Cheers, Geoff
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