- From: Jim Amsden <jamsden@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:20:15 -0500
- To: Simone Pensa <simone.pensa@icn.siemens.it>
- Cc: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org, w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
Simone, The IETF area directors don't like to see a working group go on forever. They prefer to see it specify a charter, execute on the charter, publish standards, and disband. This keeps the work fresh, encourages completion of deliverables, and allows new working groups to be created with new members. The DeltaV working group is a new working group whose charter is to provide versioning extensions to WebDAV. If this work was done in the WebDAV working group, it would take a lot longer to get RFC2518 done which would result in fewer WebDAV implementations. By separating these concerns, we encourage development of WebDAV servers which are useful now, and get a new set of working group members who are more experienced in versioning and document management systems. So you can consider DeltaV as a continuation of WebDAV for versioning and configuration management extensions. However, the WebDAV working group is still active as RFC2518 is not yet an Internet Standard. I'm just reading the documnentation of both groups ... I didn't understand what is the difference of the two working groups. Someone could tell me something ... Can I consider deltav as the continuation of webdav ? If so, why webdav is still working ? Thanks Simone Pensa
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