Re: [VCARDDAV] Protocol Action: 'Extended MKCOL for WebDAV' to Proposed Standard

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> · Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:57:31 +0200

(FYI)

The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
> 
> - 'Extended MKCOL for WebDAV '
>    <draft-ietf-vcarddav-webdav-mkcol-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard
> 
> 
> This document is the product of the vCard and CardDAV Working Group. 
> 
> The IESG contact persons are Alexey Melnikov and Lisa Dusseault.
> 
> A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-vcarddav-webdav-mkcol-06.txt
> 
> Technical Summary
>   This specification extends the Web Distributed Authoring and
>   Versioning (WebDAV) MKCOL method to allow collections of
>   arbitrary resourcetype to be created and to allow properties
>   to be set at the same time. It avoids minting new MK* methods
>   (such as MKCALENDAR) for each new type of collection.
>            
> Working Group Summary
>   Process was smooth; the only early disagreement was about the
>   scope of this document (whether it should apply to
>   non-collection resources as well, and whether it should also
>   setting ACLs). In the end, the WG converged on the minimal
>   functionality needed to resolve the issue.
> 
> Document Quality
>   This protocol extension defined in this document is used
>   by the VCARDDAV protocol (another deliverable of the Working
>   Group), for which several vendors have announced support
>   (for instance, Apple, and Viagenie).
> 
> Personnel
>   The Document Shepherd for this document was Julian Reschke,
>   and the responsible Area Director is Alexey Melnikov.
> 
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