RE: Issue: URI_URL, proposed changes

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Clemm, Geoff
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:28 PM
> To: 'Webdav WG (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: Issue: URI_URL, proposed changes
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> So how can you in any sense "use the URI to effectively
> author the resource" (which you agree below is the purpose of
> the DAV:dst field) if you can't even locate the resource
> identified by the URI?

As I said before, even a URN (for instance identifying a book or a RFC) may
be a useful piece of information. I can't change *that* resource (at least
not using HTTP), but it may be useful to know that the destination resource
depends on it.