Re: Consideration of WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol asProposed Standard

[hardie@qualcomm.com]

Jim,
	Thanks for your message.  I have updated the draft's
status in the tracker to reflect the request for publication.
If there are issues to resolve prior to last call, I will
contact you and the working group; if not, the next
step will be a two week IETF last call for proposed standard.
			regards,
				Ted Hardie

At 1:08 PM -0700 5/15/03, Jim Whitehead wrote:
> The WebDAV Working Group hereby requests consideration of the WebDAV Ordered
> Collections protocol as a Proposed Standard. The specification for this
> protocol can be found in <draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol-08>:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol-08.t
> xt
>
> Abstract:
>
> This specification extends the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol
> to support server-side ordering of collection members. Of particular
> interest are orderings that are not based on property values, and so
> cannot be achieved using a search protocol's ordering option and
> cannot be maintained automatically by the server. Protocol elements
> are defined to let clients specify the position in the ordering of
> each collection member, as well as the semantics governing the
> ordering.
>
> ---------
>
> It is my judgement that this specification represents the rough consensus of
> the WebDAV Working Group, having passed through a 4 week long working group
> last call for comments period, receiving only minimal comments (resolved in
> the current -08 specification). The specification resolves known engineering
> tradeoffs, and to the best of my knowledge, represents a solid basis for the
> construction of interoperable implementations.
>
> - Jim Whitehead
> Co-Chair, WebDAV Working Group