Re: draft-toomim-httpbis-versions HTTP mapping (and WebDAV Versioning)

Julian in response to the following (bolding is mine):

On 11/1/24 4:05 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> It could be used to discover a version, but *that version should also 
> (in general) have a URL*.

I disagree that every version should have its own URL in general. I 
argue that making URLs for versions is a separate concern that should be 
handled in a separate spec.

> if the version has a different URI then the version-controlled 
> resource, is it a resource on its own?


In my world, it does not have a different URI than the versioned 
resource. Are you ok with separating these concerns into separate 
specifications, and considering this to be a spec for versioned 
resources where only the resource itself has a URI? Additional URIs can 
be added separately.

I also suggest using the term "versioned" rather than 
"version-controlled", because the spec also supports distributed 
systems, which allow peers to create versions without central control. 
(Control is done with validation, which is also a separate concern from 
versioning.) The term "version control" arose in centralized versioning 
systems that used "controls" like checkins, checkouts, and locks to 
prevent conflicts. We are just doing versioning here.