- From: <Mark_Day/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:32:34 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Steve Carter wrote: "My focus is on back-end issues especially where it deals with legacy systems exposing their functionality via WebDAV. I agree with what you pointed out when it pertains to Internet documents, however, the argument does not hold water when exposing a non-web based document repository where data structures other than file systems are used to organize documents and provide access." I guess that I don't understand why byte range locks are singled out for special treatment among all the flavors of legacy system behaviors that one might choose to support in WebDAV. Why not hardware pages? Unix inodes? nodes in a B-tree index? All of these seem to me to have the same character as byte ranges: they have no necessary connection to the semantic structure of a document or document collection, and they are used by various legacy repositories and databases to implement forms of locking. --Mark Day Mark_Day@lotus.com
Received on Tuesday, 25 February 1997 11:33:28 UTC