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From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Message-ID: <852568BE.004291F8.00@d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:07:03 -0400
Subject: Re: Questions on activities
<geoff>
The majority of web servers (such as Apache and IIS) only handle a few
top level name mappings, and hand the rest of the processing off to
the underlying repository. So it is reasonable to associate some
collection with a class of metadata, and map the URL of that
collection to the appropriate underlying repository, but this does not
allow you to make arbitrary associations between URL's and different
kinds of metadata potentially from different repositories.
</geoff>
<jra>
This won't be true of WebDAV servers that support BIND. They will have to
have much more support for mappings.
</jra>
While we are waiting for such WebDAV servers to be written, I'd like
to make it possible to have implementations that are significantly
simpler, and assume all but the top level name mappings are being
maintained by the underlying repository.
<jra>
These are not repository semantics, but WebDAV binding and versioning
semantics. The implementation shouldn't be in the repository managers as
this would require repository managers to know and implement WebDAV
semantics, something they shouldn't be expected to do.
</jra>