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From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org (ietf-dav-versioning)
Message-ID: <2000Jan27.132213.1250.1459451@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:22:28 -0500
Subject: Re: DAV:revision-resourcetype
>The server often cannot guess what the appropriate storage format will
>be, based only on the first revision. For example, a choice between
>compressed and text-delta depends on how big the revisions in general
>will be, and how much stays the same from revision to revision. On
>the other hand, the user often can predict what this behavior is
>likely to be, and could indicate this to the server if it was
>permitted to do so by the protocol.
I agree, but this is purely a server implementation problem. I would be
reluctant to build into the protocol since such implementation issues are
not 'universal truths', and there is no clear boundary to the optimizations
possible by further extending the protocol.
Tim