- From: Peter Raymond <Peter.Raymond@merant.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:38:28 +0100
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20CF1CE11441D411919C0008C7C5A13B0227E943@stalmail.eu.merant.com>
Hi, I have read through the WebDAV Access Control Protocol specification (draft 6) and have a few comments/questions: 1) In section 1.1 where Terms are defined I think they are listed in the wrong order, it seems to make sense to me to explain ACE before we explain ACL, since one refers to the other. Similarly we should explain "Abstract Privilege" after we define ACE. 2) In the spec (section 1.1) we define "Protected Property" (which is also defined in the DeltaV specification), then in section 5.3 we say that DAV:current-user-privilege-set is a protected property, but it is computed. So I think the property more closely matches the DeltaV definition of a "Computed Property", could we include that in section 1.1? Also should we include these definitions in the list of "cross-dependencies" between the specifications in Section 20 at the end of the ACL spec? 3) In sections 5.3.1, 5.4.5, 8.1.4, 9.2.1, and 9.3.1 of the specification there are some foreign characters which I think should be double-quotes (I think these are just formatting errors). 4) In the later sections of the document we use the Precondition/Postcondition syntax, similar to the DeltaV specification, should we not include some definition of what pre/post conditions are and how they work (just like section 1.6 of the DeltaV specification). 5) In the specification we define the REPORT method and several reports, but it does not define the DAV:supported-report-set property. Should we also define that property so that an ACL aware client can tell if a given resource supports one of the ACL reports? P.S. Anyone know the status of the WebDAV bindings protocol? Is this working group editing this document or is it dead/experimental? Regards, -- Peter Raymond - MERANT Technical Architect (ADM) Tel: +44 (0)1727 813362 Fax: +44 (0)1727 869804 mailto:Peter.Raymond@merant.com WWW: http://www.merant.com
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