- From: Jason Crawford <nn683849@smallcue.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:28:38 -0500
- To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>
- Cc: "'Clemm, Geoff'" <gclemm@rational.com>, "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Friday, 03/07/2003 at 01:30 PST, "Lisa Dusseault" <nnlisa___at___xythos.com@smallcue.com> wrote: > > > > > Anyway, the main issue for us is that we absolutely can not > > change the > > > DELETE collection semantics (from what we have in RFC2518). > > > > Sure you can. The behavior the spec outlines is compliant with 2518. > > It does not break 2518 compliant clients. But it does require that > > server writers do some coding before they can claim to support > > this new feature. > > > > Well, yes, one can change the required behavior from 2518 to 2518bis. > However, we don't want to do that unless there are existing > interoperability problems. I don't think changing the model so that > some servers have difficulty being compliant with the new model is a > good idea for 2518bis. They'd still be compliant. SHOULD is not MUST ------------------------------------------ Phone: 914-784-7569, ccjason@us.ibm.com I do not check nn621779@smallcue.com
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