Re: I will work on Delta-V
Sean Shapira (sds@jazzie.com)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
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From: sds@jazzie.com (Sean Shapira)
To: ejw@ics.uci.edu, moore@cs.utk.edu
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIKLAGLCOPGKGADOJIELBCBAA.ejw@ics.uci.edu> from "Jim Whitehead" at Jul 19, 99 08:51:38 pm
Subject: Re: I will work on Delta-V
Jim wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> I had a chance to talk to Geoff Clemm today about the Delta-V BOF in Oslo,
> and the concerns you raised there about whether there are enough people
> willing to work on a Web versioning and configuration management protocol.
Please allow me to "delurk" long enough to express my mystification
at the notion that there might not be sufficient willingness to work
on a web-based versioning protocol. Perhaps something has been mis-
understood here?
Is there some sense that the vendors of commercial versioning and
configuration management software lack interest in creating an
open and interoperable protocol? Or is it that the commercial
vendors are pursuing their interoperability work outside the
delta-v (or even ietf) structure?
> versioning support has been part of WebDAV's vision from the
> very first WebDAV BOF in San Jose in Fall 1996.
I left that BOF with the strong feeling that webdav's work was
in good hands. Lurking on the list has not dissuaded me from
that opinion. Was the situation very much different in Oslo?
> I encourage you to approve the Delta-V charter, and to work with us to
> achieve our goal of improving the document collaboration facilities of the
> Internet.
Unless there exists some group seeking a similar charter, this
decision seems like a "no-brainer."
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