Teleconf minutes, Feb. 28, 2000

From: Jim Whitehead (ejw@ics.uci.edu)
Date: Mon, Feb 28 2000

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    From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:00:50 -0800
    Message-ID: <NDBBIKLAGLCOPGKGADOJKEOFCOAA.ejw@ics.uci.edu>
    Subject: Teleconf minutes, Feb. 28, 2000
    
    Versioning Teleconference
    February 28, 2000
    
    Present: Henry Harbury, Jim Amsden, Jim Whitehead, Geoff Clemm, Tim Ellison
    Minutes recorded by Jim Whitehead
    
    *** Note that decisions made during the teleconference are always
    subject to review on the mailing list.  The mailing list is the final
    arbiter of consensus on any issue.  ***
    
    To discuss: live properties vs. methods, default revision selection,
    repositories, namespace control of versioning resources, i18n of labels.
    
    i18n of headers: Agree that labels need to be able to express ISO10646
    characters. For labels in XML, can use standard XML character set encodings
    (UTF-8 or UTF-16).  For labels in HTTP headers, we will use a simple
    encoding for UTF-8 in headers (%xx, etc.)
    
    namespace control of versioning resources: One server may have constraints
    on the names of versioning resources, another may not. One proposal is that
    clients need to discover where versioning resources need to be created, and
    that this information will be conveyed using the REPORT method. Some
    uneasiness with conveying this information using REPORT. User need is to
    find out where the workspace resources are located. This topic is closely
    related to the issue of what happens when a client approaches a DeltaV
    server for the first time.  What kind of configuration information does the
    user have to type in?  Some discussion over whether DASL will be ready in
    time to use it. But, DASL just tells you that something is there, not
    whether that is the normative place to put things.  Two issues: where do I
    put my workspace? (use a REPORT for this). Different from: where are the
    workspaces?  Might need two different mechanisms here.
    
    *** End of Teleconference ***