- From: Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:25:44 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Ron Daniel wrote: | It seems to me that to make progress, this group needs to agree on | a few simple points and stop arguing over them. Can we start by | agreeing on two things: | | 1) Neither headers or separate resources meet all the requirements on | metadata in WEB-DAV, so we will need a combined solution. | | 2) All communications between clients and servers will take the form of | MIME messages, and frequently those messages will be multipart/related? | | The last seems uncontroversial to me, but then I have been accused of being | an optimist :-). I hope that the former is also uncontroversial given | the last few messages on this list. Agree with both. (2) is a model I think will answer XML's need for a packaging mechanism, and for reasons I think are generalizable to this group's needs. Regards, Terry Allen Electronic Publishing Consultant tallen[at]sonic.net specializing in Web publishing, SGML, and the DocBook DTD http://www.sonic.net/~tallen/ A Davenport Group Sponsor: http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html
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