- From: Brian Korver <briank@xythos.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:42:28 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>, w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
On Sep 4, 2004, at 12:58 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Brian Korver wrote: > >> Geoff, >> I agree. And I agree with Julian that the "quota" model >> in the spec associates quota with resources, not users, >> which makes it inherently incompatible with the Unix model. >> But I don't think anyone could reasonably argue that the >> spec should be changed to associate quota with users. > > Well, we do. Many quota systems work like that; and if this is > supposed to become the Quota spec supported by the IETF WebDAV mailing > list, it should be compatible with these systems. > > Or on the other hand, removing this part of the spec resolves *that* > issue, and as far as I can tell, only one single vendor is supporting > it anyway. So why not make it a private extension? > >> That would be unDAVlike, unNFSlike, etc. Of course, someone >> could unreasonably argue that position.... ;-) > > I don't get that point. Could you please explain...? We agreed to follow the NFS model and in fact pulled the text essentially unchanged from the NFS RFC. -brian briank@xythos.com
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