Re: quota-03 spec review, was: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-webdav-quota-03.txt

On Sep 3, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Brian Korver wrote:
>
>> There seems to be a misunderstanding (due to underspecification?).
>> The value of DAV:quota-assigned-bytes is intended to be deterministic.
>> I guess that needs to be spelled out explicitly in the spec.
>
> So what's the relation between DAV:quota-assigned-bytes and 
> DAV:quota-used-bytes?

Quite possibly none.


>
>> Since the only two implementations of the quota property
>> that I know of don't make this distinction, I think it's
>> difficult to argue for adding this requirement.
>
> How are they supposed to make that distinction when they currently 
> can't?
>
> Anyway: if you want to write down what two specific implementations 
> do, then produce a non-WG track document, and try to publish through 
> the IETF (or elsewhere). If this is supposed to be a WG activity, 
> you'll also have to listen to those that do not currently implement 
> it, but might want to do so in the future.
>
> If there's a split between things we have consensus on and extensions, 
> and the former part is useful on it's own, put *that* in the standard 
> tracks document and put the rest into an extension.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
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-brian
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