- From: Sankar Virdhagriswaran <sv@hunchuen.crystaliz.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:26:42 -0400
- To: "John Stracke" <francis@ecal.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> Some time ago, Jim Whitehead and I were talking about the possibility of using > DAV to implement a message forum. In such a system, there are at least three > obvious useful orderings: by sender, by date, and by thread. > I agree with John (and others). Collections are very powerful mechanism to implement applications whose user accessible items are selected by their attributes and not by their names. Messaging forums are one of the obvious case of this sort of an application (some argue that file system like hierarchical namespaces should have been implemented this way). When items are selected by their attributes, for performance reasons, the servers would like to maintain some order (i.e., index). Therefore, allowing the client to discover the order is a very useful functionality. Allowing for this functionality supports the need for application writers to develop application that we have never imagined using DAV as the platform.
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