- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:37:37 -0800
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Elias Sinderson wrote: >> [...] Including a single sentence which states that clients can't >> necessarily depend on live properties being the same on different >> bindings to a given resource. > > ... doesn't seem like an undue amount of verbiage in the spec. It does to me, and I guess an explanation is in order. Let's say that a given live property definition does specify that its value must remain the same on different bindings to the same resource. In that case, the client can depend on them being the same and that simple little addition creates an unnecessary contradiction between what should have been orthogonal specifications. There is no reason for the binding specification to make blanket statements when there are no conditions that hold for all live properties -- that is why we have property definitions. Developers don't need any more guidance here. What they need are shorter specifications so that they don't have to waste their time digging through meaningless tripe just to understand the interface. ....Roy
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