- From: Elias Sinderson <elias@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:30:50 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
+1, for much the same reasons outlined in Geoff's post below. Q: 2518 defines two levels of compliance, depending on whether locking is supported or not - would it make sense to try and extend this approach to cover all of the related specs? Cheers, Elias Geoffrey M Clemm wrote: >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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