- From: <Mark_Day/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:56:50 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Steve Carter wrote: 'So, Mark, you vote that we abandon all legacy clients and design the *pure* protocol for WebDAV?' In the absence of a compelling reason to carry some feature forward, you betcha. It would be one thing if the argument for byte-range locking were "it's really useful in general, so we shouldn't leave it out of any future protocol, and look at these products to see how useful it can be." It's quite another if the argument is "a bunch of products (including my company's) use it, so we need it in the protocol." If the protocol supports section locking, I bet that it can be used to implement byte range locking (e.g. by mapping section numbers into byte ranges) when the client and server know that's what's suitable for the relevant resource. I doubt that the reverse is true. --Mark
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