- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:34:16 -0500
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
I still vote for "SHOULD". In particular, given the problems partial DELETE and partial MOVE can produce in a multiple binding context, a server that supports multiple bindings to a resource SHOULD do those operations atomically unless it has a very good reason to do otherwise (e.g. the scenario I posted earlier). Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:38 PM To: Brian Korver; 'WebDAV' Subject: RE: Move and Delete (was: bind draft issues) > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Brian Korver > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:15 PM > To: 'WebDAV' > Subject: Re: Move and Delete (was: bind draft issues) > > ... > > 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. I think Brian is right here. SHOULD is really strong in RFC-speak, and if we really expect servers to show this behaviour, ir probably needs to be specified as "MAY". Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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