- From: Paton, Jeff J <Jeff.J.Paton@corpmail.telstra.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:36:24 +1000
- To: "'John Stracke'" <francis@netscape.com>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
- Cc: "Falkenhainer, Brian" <Brian_Falkenhainer@mc.xerox.com>, "Garnaat, Mitchell" <MGarnaat@crt.xerox.com>, "'Jim Davis'" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, masinter@parc.xerox.com
Architecting WebDAV to enforce the effect of the statement "declaring that version 1.13 descends from version 1.1 instead of 1.12, which means you lose the audit trail that versioning provides" is going to limit its use in the real world: people make mistakes and manipulation to correct the effect of incorrectly submitting a version needs to be available. Cheers Jeff Paton Senior Technology Consultant - Internet & Intranet Technology Strategy & Architecture IT Services Telstra Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: John Stracke [SMTP:francis@netscape.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 4:10 AM > To: 'WebDAV' > Cc: Falkenhainer, Brian; Garnaat, Mitchell; 'Jim Davis'; > masinter@parc.xerox.com > Subject: Re: Hierarchical URLs and Collections > > Yaron Goland wrote: > > > As such I encourage the various document vendors who need a flat > namespace > > to involve themselves in the DAV versioning effort and to ensure that > the > > commands and properties created by that effort are sufficiently > versatile to > > allow for arbitrary state graph manipulation. > > But that would wreck the versioning system. Versioning doesn't want to > permit > arbitrary manipulation of the version graph; versioning needs to provide a > few > well-defined operations (e.g., check in, check out) which manipulate the > version graph in legal ways. Arbitrary manipulation fo the graph would > permit > things like declaring that version 1.13 descends from version 1.1 instead > of > 1.12, which means you lose the audit trail that versioning provides. > > -- > /======================================================================\ > |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|I imagine the wages| > |Software Retrophrenologist|=======================/ of sin are death, | > |Netscape Comm. Corp. | but by the time they take taxes out it's | > |francis@netscape.com | just sort of a tired feeling.--Poundstone | > \======================================================================/ > New area code for work number: 650 > >
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