I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-webdav-requirements-01.txt

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       Title     : Requirements for Distributed Authoring and 
                   Versioning on the World Wide Web                                      
       Author(s) : J. Slein, F. Vitali, J. Whitehead, D. Durand
       Filename  : draft-ietf-webdav-requirements-01.txt
       Pages     : 16
       Date      : 07/25/1997

Current World Wide Web (WWW or Web) standards provide simple support for 
applications which allow remote editing of typed data. In practice, the 
existing capabilities of the WWW have proven inadequate to support 
efficient, scalable remote editing free of overwriting conflicts.  This 
document presents a list of features in the form of requirements which, if 
implemented, would improve the efficiency of common remote editing 
operations, provide a locking mechanism to prevent overwrite conflicts, 
improve link management support between non-HTML data types, provide a 
simple attribute-value metadata facility, provide for the creation and 
reading of container data types, and integrate versioning into the WWW.    

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