Re: locking clarifications/extensions vs BIND draft vs RFC2518bis

Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> Here's another idea.  What if we made locking required in the next
> version of WebDAV?  Servers that support RFC2518 can always claim 
> support for RFC2518 without changes but most servers support locking
> anyway and wouldn't find this difficult.  For clients of course it's
> no change at all.  Then WebDAV core would have almost no options.

I think *that's' a bad idea. There are lots of servers that do not allow 
locking, or that do allow locking, but not on all resources.  Let's make 
things simpler, not more complicated.

Julian

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Received on Saturday, 7 February 2004 03:32:37 UTC