Re: Status of Bugzilla Bug 10, Round-tripping various information in properties from Wilfredo Sánchez Vega on 2006-01-04 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from January to March 2006)

From: Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@wsanchez.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:10:26 -0800
To: webdav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Message-Id: <5F4457D7-A1AE-4304-8665-9ADA30773549@wsanchez.net>

On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Elias Sinderson wrote:
> Geoff supports the requirement but is indifferent wrt SHOULD vs. MAY.
> Lisa is OK with SHOULD, but would be fine with MAY.
> Jim is fine with SHOULD.
> Wilfredo also seems to be okay with SHOULD, as it still leaves some  
> wiggle room for server implementers.

   For the record, I'm uncomfortable with SHOULD and happy with MAY.

> It is my opinion that a MAY level requirement in this situation  
> will lead to more special casing for client writers

   It's highly unlikely that we'll implement this in mod_dav, which  
is a fairly common case, so interoperability will be an issue for  
many clients either way.

	-wsv

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