RE: Deleting versions from Jim Whitehead on 2001-06-04 (ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:41:53 -0700
To: "DeltaV" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AMEPKEBLDJJCCDEJHAMIMEKLCPAA.ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>

>    From: Lisa Dusseault [mailto:lisa@xythos.com]
> 
>    Actually, I think the problem is that I (do other readers?) still
>    don't look in the preconditions and postconditions for normative
>    requirements.  I think of them as error/status codes, but in fact a
>    lot of the postconditions make requirements.
> 
> That would be a problem, because the majority of the normative
> requirements are specified in the pre and post conditions. The
> introductory text provides motivation and guidance, but the
> pre and post conditions are the actual specification of functionality.
> 

For the record, I have found this confusing on multiple occasions as well.

- Jim

Received on Monday, 4 June 2001 18:44:04 UTC