- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:39:18 -0700
- To: Dylan Barrell <dbarrell@opentext.ch>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Cc: Mark_Day/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com
>I would like to see the shared-lock be an optional portion of the WebDAV >standard. I think the minimum requirement for locking is exclusive locking >and this should be the minimum that WebDAV requires. What is expressed in the latest locking draft is that *all* locking capability should be optional. Since some replicated storage systems cannot enforce the semantics of a lock, and since people are interested in building WebDAV servers on top of these replicated stores, we can't have mandatory lock capability without excluding this very important type of back-end. As I recall, Mark Day was a major proponent of not having lock functionality mandatory, so perhaps he could expand on this. - Jim
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