Re: I will work on Delta-V

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Mon, 9 Aug 1999 12:04:33 -0700 

From: <infonuovo@email.com>
To: "'Keith Moore'" <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>, "'WebDAV WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>,
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 12:04:33 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <NDBBIKLAGLCOPGKGADOJIELBCBAA.ejw@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: RE: I will work on Delta-V

%To:	Keith Moore
%Cc:	DeltaV
	WebDAV
	DMA Tech
	Jim Whitehead
%From:	Dennis E. Hamilton
%Re:	Working on Delta-V

I notice a fair amount of chatter on whether Delta-V would (continue to) be
chartered as an IETF working group.

I haven't seen anything farther, but I wanted to add my two-cents worth.

Speaking as the Document Management Alliance (DMA) Technical Committee
Chair, I see the Delta-V effort as indispensable to raising the level of
Web-enabled document management, especially around the management part, not
only the authoring part.

As we look to having the DMA model be web-enabled, our avenue is WebDAV and
the Delta-V work, especially because it draws together a broader and
different community than those who have focused on DMA for interoperability
of production document-management systems.  The open nature of IETF Working
groups is important for providing such a community of expertise, review, and
contribution from diverse interests.

We have been talking about this at the DMA Alliance steering committee, and
it is my sense that we know of no better forum or mechanism.  I cannot speak
for AIIM, the sponsor of DMA, but I for one am committed to the maximum
amount of information interchange around the AIIM DMA work that has already
been invested in a versioning model and seeing how to align the DMA work
(which is not tied to HTTP), Web-enabled Document Management, and the
efforts of Delta-V.

This will at least take the form of members of DMA also participating on
Delta-V and related IETF activities.  Although we have a membership-based
model for arriving at technical agreements, there is no impediment to
informally sharing our work and participating on the IETF working group as
well.  We will do that and you can expect to see my own participation on
Delta-V and related activities.

-- Dennis