- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 08:44:49 PDT
- To: Barbara Bazemore <barbarab@pcdocs.com>
- CC: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Judy Slein: >4. Server-generated version ids: Is there a requirement for clients to be >able to request that the server generate an id for a new version? (5.9.2.8) Barbara Bazemore: > Consider this issue from the client's point of view. The client asks > the server to save a document as a new version. The server generates > a new version id. The client now wants to reference the new version. > How does the client find out what the new version id is? Perhaps there's a way of rewriting the requirement so that it focuses on the intent rather than the mechanism: "A simple client should be able to create new versions and reference the new version in a way that is transparent to the way in which version IDs are generated, coded, or parsed. For example, if a client saves a document as a new version and the server generates a new version ID, the client should be given or be able to easily discover the version ID of the newly generated version." Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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