- From: Elias Sinderson <elias@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:38:02 -0800
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Thanks Roy, that's an excellent point that I hadn't considered. For the record, I am no longer opposed to the spec remaining silent on the issue. Cheers, Elias ________________________________ Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > 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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