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From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Message-ID: <852568B9.0070A15E.00@d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:30:11 -0400
Subject: RE: Questions on activities
<geoff>
Most CM systems to not allow multiple bindings to versioning metadata
(such as activities and configurations), so you would not be allowed to
have both the system name and an additional user preferred name.
Versioning implementations don't support the same degree of naming
flexibility
for CM metadata as they do for user data, and the protocol must take this
into account in order for it to be useful to provide
interoperation with existing versioning stores.
</geoff>
<jra>
But we're not talking about CM systems, we're talking about WebDAV servers
possibly built on top of CM systems. It is the WebDAV server that would be
doing the bindings, not the underlying CM system. As a result, I don't
think the WebDAV server even needs to expose the implementation
characteristics of its (potentially many) unterlying CM systems. The WebDAV
server gives implementers a chance to map requests to the underlying
repository mechanisms, and normalize (to some extent) their variabilities.
</jra>