- From: Bob Parker <bob@continuus.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:41:34 -0700
- To: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
- CC: "ejw@ics.uci.edu" <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
Jim Whitehead wrote: > > Are there any members of the working group who strongly support adding a > requirement for providing configuration support to WebDAV? > > If you do, could you please give a brief description of your rationale? > While I think supporting configurations would be a good thing, I'm concerned that the 'WebDAV configuration model' may be difficult to map to existing systems, each of which has a different idea of how configurations should be managed. As Jim said, supporting configurations will introduce a lot of complexity, regardless of which model is used. Versioning is something that many servers would want to support, but configuration management may not be needed by some sites, and the added complexity would be burdensome, so if WebDAV were to support configurations, it would probably have to be optional. Even for those sites that would use the configuration support, most content editing and management tools would probably only want to support simple versioning (checkout, checkin) anyway. Of course we're giving up some interoperability for more advanced tools, but I'm not sure that's critically important yet. As a maker and user of Configuration Management tools, I think supporting configurations would be great, but I think WebDAV can get away without it, and still provide a standard with a lot of value. Bob Parker Continuus Software Corp.
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