Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-webdav-ordering-protocol - WebDAV OrderedCollections Protocol

[ned.freed@mrochek.com]

> Hi Allison,
> 	By "ordering semantics" they mean the value of
> DAV:"ordering-type", i.e, DAV:unordered or DAV:custom.
> Any other URI there indicates that it has some ordering
> semantics identified by that URI.  At the moment,
> pretty much all will be custom, since this is for server
> maintained by client-specified orders (like page numbers).
> The working group would like eventually to have server-applied
> semantics, but didn't get that done in this document.  I
> see the any other URI  possibility as a hook for that in the future,
> and I suspect that is why they used the relatively
> rarified "ordering semantics" language rather than something
> more plain.

Server-applied semantics opens up the interesting question of general
specification of orderings. I don't know the current state of play for
this in XML-land, but I'm glad this document elected not to go there.

				Ned