draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-07 now available

From: Geoffrey M. Clemm (geoffrey.clemm@rational.com)
Date: Wed, Aug 09 2000

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    Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
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    From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Subject: draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-07 now available
    
    
    http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-07.htm
    
    This new draft of the protocol contains all changes agreed upon at the
    recent working group meeting at Pittsburgh (enumerated in the meeting
    notes posted to this mailing list a few days ago).   Since no sustantive
    changes were made to either core or advanced versioning at this
    working group meeting, I am very hopeful that we are getting close
    to "Last Call"!
    
    One of the decisions was to move the notion of a "version history" to
    core versioning, and then to unify/simplify the terminology.  After
    numerous variants, I decided to try the following terminology for 07:
    
    When a "versionable resource" is put under version control with the
    VERSION-CONTROL method, a new "version history" is created at a server
    defined location, and the versionable resource is replaced by a
    "version selector" whose target is a "version" from the new version
    history.
    
    Analogous terminology is used to talk about baselines, namely:
    The BASELINE-CONTROL method can be applied to a collection to place
    it under baseline control.  A "baseline selector" selects a "baseline"
    from a "baseline history".
    
    Note: I'll be on vacation for two weeks starting this Saturday,
    so expect a delay in my responding to comments on the 07 draft.
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff