Re: I will work on Delta-V
Jeff McAffer OTT (Jeff_McAffer@oti.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:58:56 -0400
From: Jeff_McAffer@oti.com (Jeff McAffer OTT)
To: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Cc: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org ('ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org')
Message-ID: <1999Jul21.115400.1250.1261795@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:58:56 -0400
Subject: RE: I will work on Delta-V
Keith,
I have to say I was a bit surprised to hear that there was some question
regarding interest in a Delta-V working group. Of course, as an active
participant in the design process I am somewhat biased, but my experience
has been that participation and interest has been high. I suspect that
the Oslo meeting was anomolous as a result of summer, distance, time and
cost. More representative was the recent Minneapolis Delta-V BOF (did
you have the opportunity to attend?). At that meeting there were many
interested parties and several people offering to join the design/review
efforts. In addition, there were a number of people I talked to who said
that their companies were actively implementing WebDAV. For these
people, the existence of Delta-V is essential to creating an open
standard and allowing their efforts to be effective.
The current core of active participants represent many of the major
players in VCM systems and in fact, current and potential implementors of
the WebDAV standard. Without a forum for the versioning work, I suspect
that this interest and the corresponding efforts would be greatly
diminished leaving WebDAV without a "V".
I hope that this message (and the others you will surely receive)
provides you with sufficient assurances to push forward with the Delta-V
working group proposal.
Sincerely,
Jeff McAffer