RE: DAV:displayname with versions

That isn't quite the Xythos WFS behavior.  If you MOVE a VCR, its
displayname changes to the current name.  Thus the displayname changes for
all the versions as well. They aren't entirely immutable, in other words. 

 I wouldn't put the versioning behavior of properties in RFC2518bis,
however, we need to keep changes there down so we get finished in finite
time and get draft standard status with tested interoperable features.  If
we think we can specify property behavior for versioning it could just as
easily be done in a separate short draft.

Speaking of this, what are the issues for the binding draft and the behavior
of live properties?  Does the binding draft sufficiently cover what happens
with versioning in the mix?

Lisa

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey M Clemm
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org; webdav
> Subject: RE: DAV:displayname with versions
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, 3253 leaves the definition of versioning behavior for 
> live properties up to the standard that defines those live properties.
> 
> 
> So we should probably try to define the versioning behavior for 2518 
> properties
> in 2518bis.  In general, the simplest default versioning 
> behavior for a property such as DAV:displayname is to treat 
> it the same as a dead 
> property,
> i.e. it is an immutable copy of the value of that property on 
> the VCR at CHECKIN time.  Does this work for folks currently 
> doing versioning? (I couldn't quite tell from Lisa's 
> description whether this is the Xythos behavior or not).
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> 
> Lisa wrote on 08/11/2003 01:09:58 PM:
> > 
> > Sure, every version must have the displayname property so 
> you can get 
> > it with PROPFIND.  However, no specification requires that to be 
> > either writable or protected on a version, so on some 
> servers it won't 
> > be
> writable.
> > Also no specification requires it to be either static or dynamic, so
> it's
> > possible on some servers that the property would be 
> protected, and it
> would
> > change whenever the value on the VCR changed.
> > 
> > I believe on Xythos WFS the displayname property is protected and 
> > static
> on
> > versions.  It will always have the same value as the displayname
> property of
> > the VCR.
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Geoffrey M Clemm
> > > 
> > > There is no concept of a "global" property of a version. Each 
> > > version is a separate resource, with its own properties. So each 
> > > version has its own DAV:displayname property.
> > > 
> > > But there is a natural place to put a "global" property of a
> > > version, namely, as a property on the VersionHistory of 
> that version.
> 
> > > Horst wrote on 08/11/2003 11:47:38 AM:
> > > > 
> > > > Just a simple question, is the DAV:displayname of a
> > > resource "global"
> > > > ? Or is it possible to have different DAV:displayname(s)
> > > for different
> > > > versions of the same resource.
> 
>

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