- From: Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:25:47 -0700
- To: WebDav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
- CC: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
I've traced through my email both to the list and private and tried to put together the following key points out Redirect. There are some people that want to be able to solve this problem. There are multiple ways that it could be solved with, I have received email about at least three that are in use. Some people feel the approach proposed in the redirect draft is too complex and do not plan to use it. Some people feel the functionality in the redirect draft is not enough and specifically it does not address authoring of tree-mappings or pattern matching. There are extremely limited number of implementations or groups that intend to implement this draft. We can barely find anyone to review it. There are some issues involving locking that could probably be refined in the draft but that is not the big issue. The points above lead me down the following line of thinking... I'm having a hard time coming to the conclusion that a significant portion of the community feels this is the best approach. However, it is an approach, it works, and if nothing is documented, the community may never converge on any interoperable approach so there is value in documenting this approach. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iesg-info-exp-01.txt has some information about experimental and informational I'd like to get the WG feedback about moving this forward as "Experimental". Note that this would not stop this approach from becoming standards track it it became clear over time that it was the approach that the community wanted to recommend for solving this problem. Cullen
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