RE: HOW_TO_IDENTIFY_LOCK_OWNER

> From: Jason Crawford [mailto:ccjason@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:07 PM
> To: Daniel Brotsky
> Cc: Clemm, Geoff; w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org; Julian Reschke
> Subject: RE: HOW_TO_IDENTIFY_LOCK_OWNER
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> Julian's XLink based proposal sounds fine to me.
>
> Dan, I assume you understand and sympathize with Geoff's hesitance to
> having the server try to reveal the creator of the lock. Is there
> any other
> info about a lock that ACL's don't provide that you feel needs to be
> provided?
>
> Geoff, Julian, are we sure we can't just define DAV:owner (rather than a
> new field) more restrictively to comply with your Julian's proposal?

My understanding is that recent interoperability tests have shown that
existing clients WILL break if the server doesn't round-trip whatever the
client provided. So we can't restrict it.

> Lisa, Geoff, Julian, Can you think out the interoperability scenarios and
> issues of Julian's proposal?  (I wasn't at the interops so I'm
> not familiar
> with the current uses of DAV:owner and how Julian's proposal affects the
> currently deployed systems and if there are transition issues.)

My proposal shouldn't affect interoperability because it's a new child
element.

Received on Monday, 28 January 2002 10:40:03 UTC