- From: Jim Luther <luther.j@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:01:05 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 10:20 AM, Clemm, Geoff wrote: > Apple's existing properties should not conflict with DAV:quota or > DAV:quotaused, since they shouldn't be in the DAV: namespace (surely > Apple would not have defined non-standard properties in the DAV: > namespace :-). On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 10:25 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > WebDAV properties are identified using namespaces. Just do not add > properties in namespaces you don't control. Surely I wouldn't do that (because I've read the RFC and understand how to add non-standard properties to a namespace Apple owns -- for example, http://www.apple.com/webdav_fs/props/). However, Apple had already shipped products using non-standard properties in the DAV: namespace before I had anything to do with WebDAV. I asked Lisa to revive the "Quota and Size Properties for DAV Collections" draft because: (a) I think quotas are useful and (b) I knew that Apple had done the wrong thing by using quota and quotaused in the DAV: namespace and I want to correct that problem as quickly as possible. So... I'm asking forgiveness and asking that the new names don't conflict with those Apple already uses. As I noted in an earlier message, we fully plan to support the new properties as soon as it looks like they are fully defined and won't change. By the way, you'll find the same problem with the non-standard properties defined by Microsoft including DAV:ishidden which has been recently discussed on this mailing list [1]. Does anyone else have any non-standard properties in the DAV: namespace to pull out of their closets? It would be nice to know about them now rather than later when there's a conflict. - Jim [1] <http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-hopmann-collection-props- 00.txt> and <http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/webdavfaq.html>
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