- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:22:10 +0100
- To: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
+1. //Stefan Am 02.02.2004 um 15:15 schrieb Geoffrey M Clemm: > > I agree with Julian, and strongly advocate approach #1 > (take locking out, keep bind out, make everything more modular, 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). > > Cheers, > Geoff > > > Julian wrote on 01/17/2004 03:52:29 AM: > >> >> In an off-list mail, Jim Whitehead wrote: >> >>> I'm tempted to just put BIND right into 2518bis -- worst case >>> we recycle at >>> Proposed, which I don't see as being a major adoption >>> impediment anymore (we >>> could perhaps call it WebDAV v2, to make it clear that we're making >>> progress). >> >> Well, I think that would be a radical change to our strategy... >> >> Seems that opinions vary between >> >> 1) take locking out, keep BIND out, make everyhing more modular and >> 2) keep locking in, add BIND, publish RFC2518+BIND (staying at the >> "proposed level") >> >> I'd definifively vote for 1). >> >> Julian >> >> -- >> <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760 >> >
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