- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:33:39 PDT
- To: "Yaron Goland" <yarong@microsoft.com>, "Albert Lunde" <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
The concern is that protocol-07, as written, doesn't allow interoperable implementation with a server that employs aliasing, and makes some requirements on servers that wind up being (false) assumptions that clients will make. I think that it's simple to fix the protocol by adding a "parent" property, and removing the language that requires clients to munge 'the' URL for a resource in order to find the parent. With this fix, the 1-1 relationship between 'resource' and 'resource locator' wouldn't be mandated for all implementations (although it would be allowed). Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter >
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