- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:13:50 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>, webdav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> It's a bit unclear to me what exactly your point is. Yes, server > admins can already author redirects, so there are other ways to create > these redirects than HTTP. The same could be said about WebDAV, so why > did we bother defining that? > Because there was a clear need for client interoperability in the general case of authoring Web content: several volunteer editors each from different possible implementors, several other participants who were also implementors. It wasn't a large community of implementors (not compared to other WGs I've participated in, like SIP) but it was large enough to make the work not only clearly useful but also validated by more than one implementation model and by a set of use cases that mattered to more than one implementation. Lisa
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