Re: Idioms

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Gregorio wrote:

> I was hoping, apparently in vain, to point out 
> some high-level patterns in an attempt to move
> the discussion along.  Instead we've been dragged back
> into WebDAV land.

What exactly is "WebDAV land" supposed to mean? [0]

I was under the impression that you liked to discuss things in terms of 
concrete implementations [0]. The WebDAV spec is done, and there are 
numerous compliant implementations. It's very likely the operating 
system you are using is a Level-2 client.

If there are serious problems with WebDAV, it should be trivial to point 
them out.

The one objection you did raise was that WebDAV imposes a hierarchical 
structure on collections, which I don't consider to be a valid 
criticism. You are free to show the WG implementations that require the 
flexibility that "unconstrained URIs" bring us. One piece of 
infrastructure that does assume such a hierarchy is HTTP authentication 
("protection space").

Robert Sayre

[0] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/06/08/GodwinsLaw