- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:50:03 -0400
- To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
From: Julian F. Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de] [The use case] requires that a checked-in version can carry it's own URI (of the checked in version) in its content. This is a mandatory requirement for the versioning system we have to expose through WebDAV, so we have to either define a proprietary way to achieve this, or the protocol needs an extension. We think this use case may apply to many others, and this is why we are trying to get a discussion and possibly a consensus here... OK, that makes it clearer. Most systems I know of use RCS-style keyword expansion to achieve this effect, so that the server can provide this functionality uniformly, rather than depending on the client to do so. But there certainly are advantages to the approach you suggest (i.e. explicit insertion by the client). My preference, though, would be to defer standardizing this particular feature, since the spec is already quite complex and it is an orthogonal feature that could be provided later if experience indicates that this "client side" metadata insertion is preferred over "server side" keyword expansion. Cheers, Geoff
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