- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:49:24 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
It seems to me that the use of PROPFIND to provide a namespace listing is merely providing a window to the namespace allocation functionality of the server. It has become so stripped down as to no longer correspond to what is normally referred to as a collection (at least within other Hypertext systems). Perhaps it would be easier to refer to it as a namespace, restrict it to the properties of allocating a namespace, and reserve the term collection for ordered sets that may be independent of the namespace hierarchy? We could then manipulate the namespace using namespace-restricted functionality, and manipulate each collection using the normal content modification methods upon a media type that describes an ordered collection. With that sense, external members ==> server-side redirects. ....Roy
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