Re: attn: chairs, editors - [was WebDAV properties vs. Atom extension elements]

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:37:22 -0800, Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1. I've never really studied DAV.  I suspect that I'm in the majority.   
> It would be a disadvantage if someone had to grok DAV before being able  
> to implement the Atom protocol.

Absolutely. But afaik, WebDAV is layered. We don't have to make the Atom  
protocol need all of DAV to make a server (or client) compliant. I think  
the layers of DAV compliancy is a little too coarse-grained, but this is  
maybe something we can take up with the DAV people?

Maybe the Atom protocol can be both HTTP and DAV compliant with just  
supporting the most basic HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT and DELETE? I really  
don't know, but it would be nice.

> 3. If we do some or all of the APP in a DAV-compliant way, to what  
> extent does that mean that existing DAV implementations can be re-used?

That probably depends on what level of compliancy they expect from the  
opposite party (server/client), I guess.

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