- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 13:49:22 PST
- To: dgd@cs.bu.edu
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
The issue is change control: once you define the semantics of a new method, there's little or no way to change it or update it. Adding new methods is currently (intentionally) difficult. PEP might make it easier, but I'll believe in PEP when I see more progress on it. On the other hand, there's a well defined mechanism for defining, modifying, agreeing on, registering new media types. So "POST with new media type" isn't equivalent to "new method" in the important dimension of "what happens if we get it wrong". Larry
Received on Friday, 1 November 1996 19:00:08 UTC