- From: Brian Korver <briank@xythos.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:14:57 -0800
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Clemm, Geoff wrote: > My reading of the consensus of the working group (although certainly > not universal agreement) is that atomic behavior > on the part of the server is preferable when the server is capable of > doing so, especially when multiple bindings to a resource is possible. > But since some servers cannot guarantee atomic behavior, this > was made a "SHOULD" instead of a "MUST". Similarly, any server > implementors > that feel their clients want non-atomic behavior can present non-atomic > behavior and still be compatible with the spec (because it is a SHOULD, > not a MUST). > > In addition, I believe there was consensus that allowing the > client to explicitly request atomic behavior was desireable, and this > is achieved through the introduction of UNBIND/REBIND. > > Cheers, > Geoff Geoff, My reading of the consensus was that the atomic behavior should be a "MAY", not a "SHOULD" as you suggest, but I don't have religion on the issue. -brian briank@xythos.com
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