I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-webdav-requirements-03.txt

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	Title		: Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and 
                          Versioning Protocol 
                          for the World Wide Web
	Author(s)	: D. Durand, J. Whitehead, J. Slein, F. Vitali
	Filename	: draft-ietf-webdav-requirements-03.txt
	Pages		: 17
	Date		: 1997-09-23
	
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
for a Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol 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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