RE: re-use of version URL's

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:37:36PM -0800, Mark A. Hale wrote:
> >...
> > The standard security clause for naming (here is a sample
> clause from RFC
> > 2396 from the Network Working Group):
> >
> >    Users should beware
> >    that there is no general guarantee that a URL, which at one time
> >    located a given resource, will continue to do so.  Nor is there any
> >    guarantee that a URL will not locate a different resource at some
> >    later point in time, due to the lack of any constraint on how a given
> >    authority apportions its namespace.  Such a guarantee can only be
> >    obtained from the person(s) controlling that namespace and the
> >    resource in question.  A specific URI scheme may include additional
> >    semantics, such as name persistence, if those semantics are required
> >    of all naming authorities for that scheme.
>
> Those last two sentences are exactly what DeltaV is doing: providing a
> guarantee that the version resource URL is eternally unique.
> DeltaV controls
> the version resource semantics and the namespace they occur within.
>
> > I see two issues of importance.
> >
> >    1) URL will not locate a different resource at some later
> point in time
> >    2) Such a guarantee can only be obtained from the person(s)
> controlling
> > that namespace and the resource in question.
> >
> > In terms of what we are trying to achieve.  I view (1) as being
> the rule and
> > (2) as the exception.  In addition, I believe that (2) is a matter of
> > corporate policy and it is my viewpoint that the argument
> proposed here is
> > not strong enough that WebDAV would want to impose any policy
> guidelines.
>
> DeltaV imposes policy. Period. You're just trying to say "how far." If
> corporate policy wants to break DeltaV policy, then fine... they do have
> that right. But the spec does not have to make allowances for it.

ok.  We can also enhance the design of the spec to accomodate reasonable use
cases.

> Version resource URLs can be unique and persistent

I agree; they can.  But, must they?

	Thanks,

	Mark

Received on Thursday, 4 January 2001 14:59:07 UTC