- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:27:22 +0200
- To: <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>, "Webdav WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Hi, I see that there's a lot of activity around property registration. However, I'm not convinced that we really need that. Let me explain why. What's the purpose of a property registration? I can think of 1) Avoiding name collisions and 2) Providing additional information about existing properties. Re 1): this problem doesn't need a new solution. Properties are identified by a qualified XML name (so the combination of namespace name and local name). People defining new properties should use a namespace they control, and if they do that properly, there's no reason to expect name collisions. Re 2): as for documentation purposes, this is already partly solved by the XML namespace mechanism. Simply choose one where it's easy to supply authorative information, such as a HTTP URL or a name of an RFC ("urn:ietf:rfc:nnnn"). As for automatic discovery of machine-readable property definitions, this definitively needs a lot of additional work. PS re 2): we currently use the DAV: namespace to identify properties, ACL privileges, error conditions, REPORT names and DASL search grammars (more?). However, there's no proper definition of the DAV: URI scheme (stating purpose, structure and possibly names that are in use). I think what we really should do is issue a separate document that collects the name definitions from the various WebDAV specs. Julian > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Dennis E. Hamilton > Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 10:43 PM > To: Webdav WG > Subject: RE: Notes for Sept 9 WG meeting (by Dennis Hamilton) - HTML > Available > > > > The HTML version of these notes is at > > http://DMware.info/WebDAV/2002-09-09-WebDAV.htm > > It is identical except the shortcuts work and I added Ilya's full name in > the action items. -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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