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From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: jamsden@us.ibm.com (jamsden)
Cc: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org ('Delta V')
Message-ID: <2000Feb17.105200.1250.1479055@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:57:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Labels
To my knowledge, URLs are not internationalized.
How do you write a URL with double-byte characters, etc?
I think that the only distinction between labels and revision ids, is that
users can define, set, remove, etc. labels. Making them Strings simply adds
unnecessary overhead to the spec. For example, we will have to support
operations on mixed ascii and Unicode and specified codepage labels,
including switching on the fly when dealing with the LABEL XML body and
adapting to clients' accept-charset requests. It's possible, but messy.
Tim
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>From: jamsden
>To: ietf-dav-versioning
>Subject: Re: Labels
>Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 10:26AM
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>Revision ids belong to DAV, not revision labels. The labels belong to the
>users to provide some more human meaningful way to identify a specific
>revision. WebDAV versioning doesn't need any revision labels for its use,
>only a revision id.
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>I think labels should be internationalized the same as URLs as they are
>part of the identification of a specific resource.
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><Jim W.>
>* 3.4.5, DAV:labels. Any string that appears in the protocol that is
>displayed to the user MUST be internationalized, or you violate IETF i18n
>policy. Since this section states that revision labels are exposed to the
>user, then the strings must be tagged with language, and charset.
></Jim W>
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>I have always voted that labels are not (necessarily) user-level artifacts,
>they are part of the mechanics of dav, and should be defined as a sequence
>of octects (and not a String).
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>Tim
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