- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:12:01 +0100
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
In an off-list mail, Geoff Clemm wrote: > I would strongly advocate separating locking from base WebDAV > functionality > for the following reasons: > > - WebDAV is already a family of specs (3253, ACL, redirect, ordering), > each of which defines an optional feature-package beyond what > is defined > in the base spec. It would be more consistent to handle locking > (which is an optional feature-package) the same way. > > - Having a smaller "base WebDAV spec" I believe will make WebDAV more > accessible to new implementors, since the base spec will be > less daunting > in > size. You don't have to read/understand the locking extensions to > understand versioning, ACL, redirect, or ordering, but the current > packaging of locking in with the base protocol makes it look > like you do. > > - It allows us to make more rapid progress on getting the locking > functionality standardized (i.e. it doesn't have to wait until we've > resolved all the other issues in 2518bis). I agree on all these points. However, for this plan to work we need - buy-in from the RFC2518bis authors (Lisa and Jason), - volunteers for the new document and - broad support from the working group members (that is, this mailing list) Regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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