Re: last calling WebDAV mounting spec, was I-D ACTION:draft-reschke-webdav-mount-01.txt

This document looks grossly under specified. I don't even know what mounting
means. It seems to lack many of the things you would need to make it useful
for mounting and unmounting removable storage. I suspect I don't understand
what the document is about. I would be very against the IETF publishing a
document that someone in the WG could not understand what it did.

Cullen <not as chair>


On 9/17/05 1:19 AM, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just submitted a new revision of the WebDAV mount spec. From the abstract:
> 
> 'This document specifies a mechanism and a document format that enables
> Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers to send
> "mounting" information to a WebDAV client. The protocol is designed to
> work on any platform and with any combination of browser and WebDAV
> client, relying solely on the well-understood dispatch of documents
> through their MIME type.'
> 
> Since the first draft last month, this draft has been reviewed and
> implemented in two WebDAV clients (one of which is a reference
> implementation for the Microsoft Webfolder client, appearing as an
> appendix in the spec). It has also been implemented in the WebDAV stack
> of SAP Netweaver KM.
> 
> At this point I believe the spec is complete and I plan to submit it to
> the RFC Editor for publication as Informational RFC in three weeks.
> Feedback appreciated.
> 
> HTML version: 
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-mount-latest.html>
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
> 
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> Title  : Mounting WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) servers
> Author(s) : J. Reschke
> Filename : draft-reschke-webdav-mount-01.txt
> Pages  : 14
> Date  : 2005-9-16
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> This document specifies a mechanism and a document format that
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>     send "mounting" information to a WebDAV client.  The protocol is
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