- From: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:53:34 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
I am willing to work with Jason on this document. Cheers, Geoff Julian wrote on 01/16/2004 03:12:01 PM: > > 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)
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