- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:12:26 -0700
- To: "'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
Paton, Jeff J wrote: > 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. The problem is that, for many/most applications, that audit trail is vital, even legally required, so I'd really rather have a protocol that doesn't let you mess with it. The implementation might provide an admin interface for doing such corrections--at a minimum, we can never stop the admin from going to the filesystem and tweaking things by hand--but it should not be possible for an ordinary user with a DAV client. -- /======================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.| S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|===========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. |Id est fabula nostra, et non mutabimus eam!| |francis@netscape.com | --House Falconguard and Affiliated Scum | \======================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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