- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:33:00 -0800
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: ejw@ics.uci.edu, WEBDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
This post is in response to Roy's post (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0189.html). Roy's argument, as I understand it, is that maintaining an hierarchical namespace is a policy decision, not a protocol decision. By requiring a server to maintain a consistent namespace in certain circumstances, we are dictating how a server is implemented rather than confining ourselves to defining the meaning of the bytes going over the wire. This argument resonates strongly with me as I made very similar arguments about a number of requirements in the HTTP spec (most of which, to the credit of the tireless efforts of Jim "The Editor" Gettys, were later downgraded from MUST/SHOULD to must/should). I provide the explanation, as I understand it, for how this requirement end up in WebDAV in section 7 of http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0305.html. Yaron
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