- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 12:17:58 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Cc: Richard Taylor <taylor@ics.uci.edu>, timbl@w3.org
This group has been very busy recently! I am very appreciative of all the hard work that has gone into writing and commenting on the documents and activities of this work group. So you can keep up to date, here is the status of this group's current activities: DOCUMENTS: * Distributed Authoring and Versioning Specification "Extensions for Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web" http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/dav_spec.html This document was submitted to the working group on October 25, and the most current version is Author's draft v0.1. A new revision is in preparation, which contains details on versioning operations, and revisions based on comments posted to the list. This new document will be made available to the working group by week's end at the latest. * Distributed Authoring Scenarios http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Authoring/draft-lassila-dist-auth-scenarios.html The latest version of this document is v0.2, updated on September 26. Ora has stated that he will integrate the Novell scenarios into this document, and produce a new draft. * Distributed Authoring Requirements "Requirements on HTTP for Distributed Content Editing" http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/draft-whitehead-http-distreq-00.html This document has been modified based on feedback received at the Cambridge meeting. It is currently at Author's Rev. 0.4, which is one revision higher than the Internet Draft, version 00. This document needs to be updated to reflect the specification, which has additional functionality beyong the requirements. * Versioning Requirements "Functional Requirements and Framework for Versioning on the WWW" http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/draft-durand-versreq-00.html This document still requires modification based on feedback received at the Cambridge meeting. Once this modification has been performed, this document needs to be released as an Internet-Draft. There has been some discussion on merging the two requirements documents together into a single document which reflects the full set of distributed authoring and versioning requirements, and which would be more suitable for eventual publication as an RFC. * Draft Working Group Charter "WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning (webdav) Charter" http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/charter.html This charter still requires revision based on feedback received at the Cambridge meeting. This revision will occur before the Palo Alto meeting so the charter can be discussed at this meeting. Currently at author's draft v0.1. * The executive summary of the San Mateo meeting, and the distributed authoring historical timeline were published in the article, "Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web: Informal Working Group Meeting," which appeared in the Fall 1996 issue of the World Wide Web Journal (Vol. 1, No. 4). * The internet draft on distributed authoring requirements was also reprinted in the Fall 1996 issue of the World Wide Web Journal. * NTT Labs has indicated they may submit a draft document describing specifications of their version control mechanism based on meta-level links. I have encouraged them to submit this draft to the working group soon so it may receive a hearing before the Palo Alto meeting. * At San Mateo, there was an action item to create a list which collates "key functionality" among AOLpress/AOLserver, FrontPage, Word, Netscape, and other distributed authoring tools (Dave Long). Dave Long made a call for functionality lists in July, and repeated at Cambridge that he will create this document if he receives input from other distributed authoring tool creators. MEETINGS: * The third technical working meeting will take place on November 14-15, at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California. The final registration deadline is this coming Sunday, November 10. There are currently 22 registered attendees. Details: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/paloalto/ * The final report from the Cambridge meeting is still under preparation. It is currently being hampered by the inability to cleanly convert slides to HTML, and lack of time to process the notes. * The W3C is sponsoring the Symposium: Distributed Authoring: Present and Future in Sunnyvale, California, on December 4-5, 1996. This symposium provides an easy way to become educated on distributed authoring and versioning, and there will be presentations by Microsoft, Netscape, America Online, W3C/INRIA, GMD FIT, and U.C. Irvine. Space is still available. Details and registration information: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Authoring961001/Call.html * There is currently a slot reserved for distributed authoring and versioning at the December IETF meeting, from 9-11:30 on Wednesday, December 11 (Opposite ids, agentx, tagsw-bof, dnssec, rtfm). If i have missed something, or if you have comments, please let me know. - Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu> 714-824-4121
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