- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:41:10 -0800
- To: "'Slein, Judith A'" <JSlein@crt.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
See below. > -----Original Message----- > From: Slein, Judith A [mailto:JSlein@crt.xerox.com] > Sent: Mon, February 14, 2000 11:13 AM > To: Yaron Goland; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: RE: Yaron.Redirect.ReallyNoBind > > > I've been pushing the hardest to keep this stuff in. There > are 2 reasons. > > First, it's essential that people be able to figure out > whether they are > reading the right spec. Redirect references and bindings are > in the same > space, but clearly bindings will be right for some > applications and redirect > references for others. There needs to be enough information for > implementers to understand the basic differences and realize > that there may > be a spec that fits their needs better than this one. > If the changes I proposed for the redirect spec are accepted then I think redirect will appear substantially different than the bind spec to such an extend that confusing them would be impossible. > Second, it's often easier to communicate a concept by > explaining what it is > not than by explaining what it is. We have to do both, in my opinion. > There have been continuing requests for binding-like behavior and for > direct-reference-like behavior in redirect references. We > can stop those > requests and make it clearer what functionality we are trying > to define here > by saying straight out that redirect references are not like > bindings, and > here's why; and redirect references are not like direct > references, and > here's why. > In practice I find that telling people what something is not just confuses them. Of course that is just my experience and your mileage may vary. > --Judy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yaron Goland [mailto:yarong@Exchange.Microsoft.com] > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:31 AM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: Yaron.Redirect.ReallyNoBind > > > > The 6th and 8th paragraphs of the introduction of the > redirect spec go into > a discussion of the difference between bind and redirect > resources. These > sections will only serve to confuse the reader as one need understand > nothing about bind in order to successfully implement > redirect. As such I > move that the sections discussing bind as compared to > redirect resources be > removed. >
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