IETF WebDAV Working Group

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IETF WebDAV Working Group

• Interim Meeting
• June 15-17, 1998
• Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington

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New Logo? -)
Artist Josh Cohen
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Agenda - Day 1

• Monday, June 15
• 900 Introductions, agenda review
• 915 Review of working group status
• 935 Discussion of versioning and variant
  authoring requirements (J. Whitehead)
• 1200 Lunch
• 100 Discussion of versioning protocol (J.
  Whitehead)
• 500 Adjourn for the day

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Agenda - Day 2

• Tuesday, June 16
• 900 Discussion of advanced collections
  requirements (J. Davis)
• 1200 Lunch
• 100 Discussion of advanced collections protocol
  (J. Slein)
• 415 Experiences implementing a WebDAV server (J.
  Davis)
• 500 Adjourn for the day

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Agenda - Day 3

• Wednesday, June 17
• 900 Discussion of access control
  requirements/protocol (L. Dusseault)
• 1200 Lunch
• 100 DASL meeting (A. Hopmann)
• 500 Conclude meeting

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Meeting Goals (1)

• Rough consensus on requirements for versioning
  and variant authoring.
• Generate high-quality feedback on the versioning
  and variant authoring protocol.
• Rough consensus on requirements for ordered
  collections and referential members, so this
  draft may be revised and go to working group last
  call.

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Meeting Goals (2)

• Generate high-quality feedback on the advanced
  collections protocol document. At the end of the
  meeting, this document should be 2 revisions away
  from WG last call.
• Focused discussion on the access control
  requirements so they can be revised by new
  editor.
• Feedback on the design directions in the access
  control protocol.

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Distributed Authoring Protocol - Status Report

• The Distributed Authoring Protocol specification,
  ltdraft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08gt is still
  in-queue, waiting for approval by the IESG.

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Comments Received

• Three comments have been received
• IETF Last Call
• The text/xml media type should be registered
  before approval of WebDAV protocol
• A registration draft for text/xml and
  application/xml has been generated after
  significant review from W3C XML SIG and IETF MIME
  community

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Comments Received

• Two comments from Keith Moore so far
• GUID/UUID WebDAV references Leach/Salz I-D for
  UUIDs, but ISO DCE RPC standard also defines the
  same UUIDs.
• WebDAV should reference the ISO DCE RPC spec.
  instead.
• XML Namespace src scalability Since the src
  attribute can be used to retrieve an XML schema,
  if src is an HTTP URL, this could be a
  scalability chokepoint.
• WebDAV should note this concern in the spec.