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From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org (ietf-dav-versioning)
Message-ID: <2000Jan21.102031.1250.1452102@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:21:12 -0500
Subject: RE: "stable" href's
Good idea.
Tim
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>From: Geoffrey M. Clemm
>To: ietf-dav-versioning
>Subject: "stable" href's
>Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:14PM
>
>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
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