So the usual IETF thought pattern around profiles is say we have might have
profile A and B. Are their clients that want both? Are there reasons a
server would only support one? How will this negation and if a server only
does A and a client wants B, what will the interoperation be like?
On 11/24/05 10:20 AM, "Geoffrey M Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> I agree with this proposal.
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> Cheers,
> Geoff
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> Julian wrote on 11/24/2005 08:31:14 AM:
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>> > So what I would propose is to
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>> > a) agree on a certain set of server features that those clients expect
>> > (strong ETag on PUT, octet-for-octet identity of representations, ...),
>> then
>> >
>> > b) define a profile for WebDAV that covers this, and a simple way for
>> > clients to discover whether any given resource supports this.
>> >
>> > IMHO this definition should go into a separate document. This will also
>> > reduce the amount of open issues on RFC2518bis for now.
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