RE: Last call: range locking

Sounds like the proposal I made last month
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/msg00645.html).
	Yaron

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Ron Daniel Jr. [SMTP:rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov]
>Sent:	Tuesday, March 04, 1997 7:42 AM
>To:	Larry Masinter
>Cc:	w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>Subject:	Re: Last call: range locking
>
>At 03:25 AM 3/4/97 PST, Larry Masinter wrote:
>>> 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".
>
>I agree with Larry on this. If we can do locks based on URIs, then
>we have the ability to identify the resource that is bytes n..m of
>some other resource and lock it. Maybe I've just missed them, but I
>haven't seen any real arguments on why this is insufficient and why
>the only good way to implement this functionality is to make it a part
>of some special protocol, such as a new LOCKRANGE method for HTTP.
>
>Regards,
>
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Received on Tuesday, 4 March 1997 14:16:28 UTC