Re: [Bug 3] Bindings draft should specify if all properties MUST have same value on all bindings

I strongly agree that text like this -- text that explains the rough
consensus on how properties interact with bindings -- should appear
in the bind spec (ignoring whether or not this exact text represents
the rough consensus).

-brian
briank@xythos.com

On Dec 6, 2004, at 11:14 AM, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>
> I think it would be good to include the following language in the bind
> specification:
>
> Note that, consistent with [RFC2518], the value of a dead property is
> independent of the number of bindings to its host resource, and of the 
> path
> submitted to PROPFIND. Since live properties can be aribtrary 
> computational
> processes, they MAY vary depending on path or number of bindings, but 
> SHOULD
> NOT do this unless the definition of the live property explicitly 
> includes
> this dependency.
>
>
> Here I avoided adding new requirements in areas already covered by 
> 2518, but
> did add requirements for the new situation raised by the BIND 
> specification.
>
> - Jim
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
>> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault
>> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:56 AM
>> To: Julian Reschke
>> Cc: Webdav WG
>> Subject: Re: [Bug 3] Bindings draft should specify if all
>> properties MUST have same value on all bindings
>>
>>
>> I don't think everybody else agrees that there is no problem.
>>  I have only heard a couple people directly address this issue.
>>
>> The last time we discussed this (this fall but also way
>> earlier), we did come to rough consensus that properties,
>> even live properties, must have the same value no matter
>> which binding is used to request the value of the property.
>> (I am not sure I agree with the conclusion, but I agree there
>> was rough consensus.)
>>
>> Now I'm saying that it's not clear in the spec that this is
>> required and we should put it in the spec.  This is a
>> different issue (what should be in the spec) than the
>> previous issue ( what should be
>> allowed) although clearly one follows from the other.   In
>> the message
>> you point to, Geoff and Jason and yourself addressed the
>> "what should be allowed" issue.  Now let's discuss "what
>> should be in the spec".
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>
>>> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>>>> This bug/issue has been repeatedly closed "worksforme".  I do not
>>>> agree that the issue is closed.  What is our model for
>> whether a bug
>>>> can be closed or not?
>>>
>>> Well, it has also been re-opened, with which *I* don't agree. What
>>> does this tell us? BugZilla is just a tool for keeping track of
>>> issues, but it does not help defining rough consensus.
>>>
>>> As stated before, a situation where a single voice continues to
>>> re-raise the same issue, but everybody else appears to agree that
>>> there is no problem, seems to be exactly the case where the term
>>> "rough consensus" applies.
>>>
>>> See also
>>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2004OctDec/
>>> 0025.html>.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Julian
>>>
>>> --
>>> <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
>>
>
>
>

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