- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:50:48 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Message-ID: <7DE119D3D0E15543874F7561EECBDBED02619E21@BEG.platinum.corp.microsoft.com>
The bind draft makes a heroic attempt to map its philosophy of the naming relationships of collections and resources to the statements made in the WebDAV spec. The end result are sections like the "Internal Member URI" section. Unfortunately the attempts to try and reverse engineer the WebDAV language into something sensible only makes the draft significantly more confusing to the reader. I think the optimal solution would be to remove the language attempting to explain how one could make some sense out of WebDAV and instead say "WebDAV was wrong, we are right, just read this." For the truly dedicated we can add the "internal member URI" section to the appendix where it, along with WebDAV's mistakes, will hopefully be soon forgotten. BTW, we should obviously fix the WebDAV draft but that will take a while and I can't think of a good reason to hold the bind draft up until that happens. Therefore the bind draft should introduce the new language and we will roll that language into WebDAV at the appropriate time. As such I propose that ALL mentions of "Internal Member URIs" be stricken from the main body of the spec and only be mentioned, if at all, in an appendix.
Received on Sunday, 16 January 2000 20:51:41 UTC