- From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:51:59 -0500
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The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources ' <draft-ietf-webdav-redirectref-protocol-13.txt> as an Experimental RFC This document is the product of the WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Scott Hollenbeck. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-redirectref-protocol-13.tx t Technical Summary This specification defines an extension to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to allow clients to author HTTP redirect reference resources whose default response is an HTTP/1.1 3xx (Redirection) status code. A redirect reference makes it possible to access the target resource indirectly through any URI mapped to the redirect reference resource. This specification does not address remapping of trees of resources or regular expression based redirections. Other mechanisms can also be used to achieve the same functionality as this specification. This specification allows operators to experiment with this mechanism and develop experience on what is the best approaches to the problem. Working Group Summary The WebDav Working Group came to consensus on this document as a candidate for Experimental RFC. Protocol Quality This specification is Experimental so that we can develop experience on the quality of this protocol. At least one implmentation is expected. The documentwas reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie. The PROTO shepherd is Cullen Jennings. (Who has reviewed the spec for the IESG? Are there implementations?) Note to RFC Editor OLD: Abstract: This specification defines redirect reference resources. A redirect reference resource is a resource whose default response is an HTTP/1.1 3xx (Redirection) status code (see RFC2616, Section 10.3), redirecting the client to a different resource, the target resource. A redirect reference makes it possible to access the target resource indirectly, through any URI mapped to the redirect reference resource. There are no integrity guarantees associated with redirect reference resources. NEW: This specification defines an extension to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to allow clients to author HTTP redirect reference resources whose default response is an HTTP/1.1 3xx (Redirection) status code. A redirect reference makes it possible to access the target resource indirectly through any URI mapped to the redirect reference resource. This specification does not address remapping of trees of resources or regular expression based redirections. There are no integrity guarantees associated with redirect reference resources. Other mechanisms can also be used to achievethe same functionality as this specification. This specification allows operators to experiment with this mechanism and develop experience on what is the best approaches to the problem.
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