- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:25:20 -0800
- To: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
The requirements are inconsistent with the current specification on many points, and these need to be resolved. In addition, the requirements document takes positions on many issues that have turned out to be controversial. The group needs to come to some consensus on these issues. The current specification is irrelevant to the requirements. The requirements state what the goals are, we will figure out how to get there later. Though I do agree that there needs to be some very serious consensus seeking, especially on the issue of versioning. 1. Attributes. The current specification says almost nothing explicitly about attributes, although it is possible to deduce a lot about how attributes would be manipulated from the discussion of links. I believe that all the requirements about attributes are satisfied except one: "Via HTTP, it should be possible to ... query ... arbitrary attributes ..." We need to decide whether we want to define a query syntax. If not, we need to decide whether we want to support a weaker requirement, for example that the model of attributes we define should be capable of supporting some query mechanism. A good requirements spec should only say that it must be possible to query attributes, not how to do it. BTW, the current draft does include attribute querying, please review the LinkSearch method. As for the rest of your points, I believe I have addressed all of them in my response to the requirements draft. Yaron
Received on Wednesday, 12 February 1997 10:17:58 UTC