Re: feedback on draft-murchison-webdav-prefer-09

On 2016-11-15 21:56, Ken Murchison wrote:
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> On 11/15/2016 03:39 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2016-11-14 15:41, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Tricky question.
>>>
>>> For RFC 7240 I *believe* the reason is that even if a preference is
>>> applied, the response is still compliant with the base spec. Whereas
>>> this is not the case for most behaviors describes in this spec.
>>>
>>> Thus, an implementer should be able to locate this spec by looking at
>>> the IANA method registry. That registry can either list this spec as
>>> modifying the method definition, or this spec would need to state that
>>> it "updates" the definition referenced in the IANA registry.
>>>
>>> Right now I'm not sure which of the two alternatives is best.
>>> ...
>>
>> I talked to Alexey, and I believe we agreed that updating the IANA
>> method registry (*adding* references to this spec) would be sufficient.
>
> OK.  Is this in lieu of listing updated RFCs in the boilerplate or in
> addition?

Instead of.

> Is there a template for updating the registry with references?  Or is
> some simple text asking for the references to be added sufficient?

The latter should be sufficient.

> Just to clarify, which methods do you think need to have additional
> references?  PROPFIND, REPORT, and PROPPATCH because we alter the
> responses for return=minimal?  Also keep in mind the the server is
> always free to ignore the preference if it so chooses.

Those, plus MKCOL, right?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:00:06 UTC