- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:06:25 -0400
- To: "Paul Rayson" <paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
At 10:36 AM 9/12/96, Paul Rayson wrote: >David, > >I'm not sure if this has been discussed on the group before as I only joined >last week, but do you think we need to add an awareness capability to the >protocol? Specifically, I'm thinking of adding something into section 4 along >the lines of: > >18. A way for a client to request identification of another client which >has either requested exclusive access to a version of a resource (lock) or >which >has declared an intention to modify a resource (reserve). > >The idea is that in a colloborative environment one user would be able to >see in >some way who else was working on the same resource as him/herself. I agree that this is critical, but would prefer to see it as a CM requirement (where it has already been floated by Yaron and Chris in slightly differing forms). This means we can get basic versioning standardized befopre we start arguing about locking policies >I also include the following spelling corrections as some of these won't be >picked up by a spell checker: Thanks a ton! > >That's all ... > >Paul. > >[]EMAIL: paul@comp.lancs.ac.uk [] Post: CSEG Research Centre, [] >[]Phone: +44 1524 65201 [] Computing Department, [] >[] extension 3262 [] Lancaster University, [] >[]Fax : +44 1524 593608 [] Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK.[] >[] WWW: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ [] --------------------------------------------+-------------------------- David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu | david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science | Dynamic Diagrams http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ | http://dynamicDiagrams.com/
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