Re: FW: The prospective future of WebDAV

Indeed, Mac OS X will ship with a WebDAV client file system.  A
preliminary version shipped in Mac OS X Beta.


On Monday, March 19, 2001, at 03:01 PM, Jim Whitehead wrote:

> Accidentally caught by the spam filter. I've added Daniel's email 
> address to the accept2 list, so future emails from him will go through 
> to the list.  He's not on the list (as far as I know), so you should 
> include him in any replies.
>  
> - Jim
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel BODEA [mailto:dali@dali-designs.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 9:46 AM
> To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: [Moderator Action] The prospective future of WebDAV
>
> Good evening from Paris,
>  
> I am working on the draft of an article that will handle the 
> future interoperation of systems and protocols on the Internet. 
> Concerning DAV, my specific question is... Windows and the Office Pack 
> are already integrating Web Folders and WebDAV as a network based file 
> handling system, so growing it to a fully functional File System is 
> the next natural step. Are there trends or is there any incipient 
> project sketch for the integration of DAV as a *nix transparent file 
> system like NFS or SMB? Should this be done, the maturity of the DAV 
> protocol and its spreading among the user community could be greatly 
> augmented.
>  
> Comment or criticise, but please make a CC to dali@dali-designs.com
>  
> Thank you,
> Daniel Bodea

Clark H. Warner
Manager
CoreOS File Systems Engineering
warner.c@apple.com
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Received on Monday, 19 March 2001 20:47:01 UTC