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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:02:22 -0500
Message-Id: <10001210402.AA26144@tantalum>
From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Subject: "stable" href's
After thinking for a while about Neil's question about whether a
MOVE can be applied to a revision, etc., I now believe that it would
be worthwhile for us to define which properties contain "stable"
URL's, i.e. URL's allocated by the server that cannot be modified
by a client with a MOVE request.
Unless anyone objects, I propose to make a pass through the protocol
identifying those properties which I believe identify stable hrefs.
The value to a client is that it can cache these names with the
guarantee that another client cannot MOVE them somewhere else. A
server can of course chose (or be forced) to break these bindings, but
there's nothing we can do about that.
Comments?
Cheers,
Geoff