renaming "Workspace" header to be the "Target-Selector" header

From: Clemm, Geoff (gclemm@Rational.Com)
Date: Tue, Mar 21 2000

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    From: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@Rational.Com>
    To: "DeltaV (E-mail)" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
    Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:32:19 -0500
    Subject: renaming "Workspace" header to be the "Target-Selector" header
    
    
    In my recent pass through the protocol, I've been finding it somewhat
    confusing to have both a workspace resource and a Workspace header.  I'd
    like to try switching back to an earlier name, i.e. "Target-Selector" for
    this header to see if this makes things less confusing.  I'd also like to
    change "Revision-Selector" to be "Request-Target-Selector" to emphasize
    its relationship to the "Target-Selector" header, and to emphasize that it
    only applies to target selection for the request URL.
    
    Another (very minor) advantage to this switch is that it would make it
    natural to put a workspace in both headers, so that you can copy from one
    working
    resource to another.  For example, I could say:
       COPY /foo
       Request-Target-Selector: /workspaces/my_ws
       Destination: /foo
       Target-Selector: /workspaces/other_ws
    
    Any objections?
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff