- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:16:54 -0400
- To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Before we got much further with this thread, let's examine the underlying premise that "deleting the versions when the VCR is deleted" is an important use case. This is the web, so everybody and their grandmother (and for sure, www.google.com) will have cached copies of anything you put up on the web, so an argument that blowing away old versions at server defined URL's will somehow make that data go away is rather unrealistic, isn't it? And if it doesn't really go away, why do we care that there are also a few obscure server-defined URL's that contain a copy of a version of this data? So perhaps we should reach agreement that this is a compelling use case before we consider supporting it by introducing either additional protocol elements or making server behavior less consistent and predictable. So my revised position is that we defer any action on this proposal until the group reaches consensus that this is in fact a compelling use case. Cheers, Geoff
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