PEP draft available

A PEP Internet-Draft is now available.  This is of relevance to the WebDAV
group because it is hoped that PEP can be used by clients to determine if a
server supports DAV functionality, and also perhaps as a mechanism for
discovering method interfaces.

It would be very helpful if someone could post a summary of this draft, and
their views on its applicability to the WebDAV draft protocol
specification.

- Jim

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> A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories. This draft is a work item of the HyperText Transfer Protocol
> Working Group of the IETF.
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>       Title     : PEP: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP
>       Author(s) : D. Connolly
>       Filename  : draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt
>       Pages     : 14
>       Date      : 01/03/1997
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>HTTP is an extensible protocol. PEP is an extension mechanism
>designed to address the tension between private agreement and
>public specification and to accomodate extension of HTTP clients
>and servers by software components.
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>The mechanism is to associate each extension with a URL, and
>use a few new header fields to carry the extension identifier and
>related information from HTTP clients, thru proxies and intermediaries,
>to servers, and back again.
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