- From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:01:11 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Hi On Sun 27-Apr-2003 at 01:34:37PM -0700, Larry Masinter wrote: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Nov/0149 > > #1. There should be a uniform way to declare version history of web > resources (recommended by W3C)?, and more importantly > > #2. There should be a "clean", uniform way to refer to (and thus > access) the metadata of web resources? > > Note that WebDAV http://www.webdav.org/, discussed on > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/ > provides for a "clean" univorm way to refer to (and thus > access) the metadata of web resources, through the > WebDAV protocol: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2518.txt > > and to the versioning information about resources: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3253.txt > > So before going off to invent new mechanisms, shouldn't the TAG > evaluate where WebDAV fits into the Web architecture? +1 See also Subversion [1] (a compelling replacement for CVS) and the HTTP methods Subversion uses [2] and DeltaV: Adding Versioning to the Web [3]. Chris [1] http://subversion.tigris.org/ [2] http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#http-methods [3] http://www.webdav.org/deltav/WWW10/deltav-intro.htm -- Chris Croome http://mkdoc.com/
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