- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:34:07 -0700
- To: "WebDAV WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
WEBDAV Interoperability Testing Event ------------------------------------- Where: Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering Building Santa Cruz, California When: July 19-20, 2001 (set-up available the afternoon of July 18) Who: Developers or testers of WebDAV and DeltaV clients and servers. Cost: Free, though once the costs are better understood, I will probably request a voluntary contribution from those who can afford it. How to Register: Send email to Jim Whitehead <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>. As previously mentioned on this list, there will be an interoperability testing event for WebDAV clients and servers. The intent of this exercise is to gather together, in one physical location, the developers/testers of WebDAV/DeltaV clients and servers, to exerce as many client/server pairs as possible. This will quickly surface interoperability problems. Once identified, these problems can sometimes be fixed on the spot (if developers have brought source code), or can be targeted for resolution in the Draft Standard (i.e., revised) version of RFC 2518. Similar interoperability events have been held in the past for Internet mail standards, and have been very successful. They are an extremely efficient way to do interoperability testing against a broad array of clients/servers, allowing problems to be quickly identified and resolved. Invariably, the net result of an interop. event is a set of clients and servers that work better, hence offering better value for end-users. While many details still need to be worked out (I'll send them to the list as they are resolved), some of the most important aspects of the event are as follows: * Results from the event are NOT intended for distribution to the Press. This is not an interoperability demonstration like those sometimes held at trade shows for marketing purposes. Instead, this is a normal part of the *engineering* activity of creating an interoperability standard. * Since the intended room for this event is not super-big, I request that a maximum of two people attend per independent code base (if this seems too restrictive, let me know). * You will need to provide your own machines, with the client and/or server software installed. UCSC will provide networking capabilities. * If you're intending on participating, please let me know via email to <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>. * If you're traveling from afar, you should try and get accommodations as early as you can. Santa Cruz is a popular vacation location in the summer... Here is a Web page giving hotels: http://www.scccvc.org/accom/accsearch.cfm If it's in your price range, the West Coast Santa Cruz Hotel is nice, and most rooms have an ocean view. http://www.westcoastsantacruz.com/ WestCoast Santa Cruz Hotel 175 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, California 95060 831-426-4330 * 800-426-0670 * FAX 831-427-2025 Here's a list of Bed and Breakfast places as well. http://santacruz.about.com/citiestowns/caus/santacruz/cs/accomscbedbreak/ind ex.htm - Jim
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