WebDAV

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WebDAV

• 41st IETF
• Los Angeles, California
• April 2, 1998
• http//www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/

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Agenda

• 15 min. - WG Status Report (Whitehead)
• 5 min. - Introduction to Workflow
  Standardization work (Swensen)
• 1hr. 40min - Discussion of Advanced
  Collections Requirements

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Getting Involved in WebDAV

• WebDAV Home Page
• http//www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/
• WebDAV Mailing List
• w3c-dist-auth_at_w3.org
• To join
• Send email with subject, subscribe to
  w3c-dist-auth-request_at_w3.org

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DASL

• DAV Searching and Locating (DASL)
• Searching a repository of WebDAV resources
• BOF session held at LA IETF
• Have draft charter, requirements, and protocol
  documents
• DASL Home Page
• http//www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/dasl/
• DASL Mailing List
• www-webdav-dasl_at_w3.org

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Document Roadmap
WebDAV Working Group
DASL Working Group
Future work
Notifications Requirements and protocol
for asynchronous notifications
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Distributed Authoring Protocol

• Extensions for Distributed Authoring on the
  World Wide Web -- WEBDAV
• draft-ietf-webdav-protocol
• Two working group last call for comments
  completed since Washington IETF
• 3.5 weeks on -06 draft
• 3 weeks on -07 draft

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Distributed Authoring Protocol

• A new revision (-08) will be produced very soon
  (goal is Monday)
• The -08 revision will be submitted for approval
  by the IESG
• 2 week Internet-wide last call for comments
• Several prototypes now under development.

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Interim WebDAV Meeting

• When June 15-17, 1998
• Where Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA
• Purpose To move forward on versioning, advanced
  collections, and access control
• 1 day each for these topics
• new drafts on each topic will be available
  beforehand
• Registration, other details on the list

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Advanced Collections

• Requirements
• Editor Judith Slein
• draft-ietf-webdav-collection-reqts-00 (3/11/98)
• Goal new draft by May 15
• Protocol
• Several proposals were submitted to the list, but
  are on hold pending resolution of requirements
  issues

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Access Control

• Requirements
• Editor Howard Palmer
• draft-ietf-webdav-acreq-01 (11/17/97)
• Goal revise by May 29
• Protocol
• Editor Paul Leach, Yaron Goland
• draft-ietf-webdav-acl-00 (11/10/97)
• Goal revise by May 29

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Versioning

• Versioning requirements stated in RFC 2291
• Protocol draft
• Goal produce first version by May 15