- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:25:14 PST
- To: Quentin Clark <quentinc@microsoft.com>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Quentin: Your testimonial not withstanding, the issue is NOT whether "byte range locking" is a useful feature in operating systems. The issue is not about the feature at all. We're not designing an operating system, we're designing a network protocol for web authoring. Or, to quote myself from a private conversation about this: > You keep on talking about function, and I'm talking about protocol. > The issue isn't whether the function needs to get exposed, the > issue is whether the protocol needs to be aware of it. I don't > see any good reason why the protocol needs to get more complicated > to deal with "byte range locking" when "resource locking" covers > it, because a "byte range" can be a "resource". > The Internet already has many network protocols for file systems. WEBDAV is not, and should not become, a network protocol for file system replacement. (If that's what you want, why, we already have NFS and CIFS to contend with.) -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Tuesday, 4 March 1997 07:25:42 UTC