- From: Kenji Takahashi <kt@nttlabs.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 16:08:42 -0700
- To: Fabio Vitali <fabio@CS.UniBO.IT>
- CC: Marcus Jager <mjager@microsoft.com>, WEBDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> Versions differ from language alternates at least for one major issue: they > are machine-processable. And usually machine-generated. This means that > with versions it is possible to provide more sophisticated services than > simply prompting the user: "I have 23 alternatives of this resources. Here > is the list. Which one do you want?" Thus I believe that providing a way > for these services to interact across implementations is extremely > important and well within the scope of the WEBDAV charter. Another difference is that versions are related to each other (usually) in semi-ordered manner (or tree structure). I'm not sure what "language alternatives" but it sounds like to be able to represent only relationships between one resource and its variants. Regards, Kenji -- Kenji Takahashi, Ph.D. NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories 250 Cambridge Avenue, Suite 205, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA e-mail: kt@nttlabs.com URL: http://www.nttlabs.com/~kt Phone: 650 833 3604 Fax: 650 833 3633
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