- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:24:47 -0700
- To: "Ned Freed" <ned.freed@mrochek.com>, "Patrik Faltstrom" <paf@cisco.com>
- Cc: "WebDAV" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, <acl@webdav.org>
Ned, Patrik, After five years of work, the WebDAV Working Group has completed its design and specification work on the WebDAV Access Control Protocol, specified in draft-ietf-webdav-acl-09 (submitted earlier today). The WebDAV Working Group believes that the specification has resolved known design choices, is well understood, and has sufficient interest within the WebDAV community to be generally useful. The specification has gone through three separate working group last call for comments periods, as well as a substantial review process on the acl@webdav.org and w3c-dist-auth@w3.org mailing lists. At present there are two known server implementations of the protocol, and one known client implementation (which interoperates with the server implementations), with several additional efforts underway. One of the server implementations has integrated with multiple user management repositories, including an LDAP server. As a result, we have reasonable confidence that the specification is implementable on both the client and server side, and is capable of mapping the principals used in the specification to principals managed by user management systems. WebDAV WG hereby requests that you review this specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard RFC. - Jim Whitehead Co-Chair, IETF WebDAV Working Group
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