The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) ' <draft-ietf-webdav-bind-27.txt> as an Experimental RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-bind-27.txt Technical Summary The WebDAV BIND extensions adds the ability for a client to create different "bindings" between URIs and resources on a WebDAV server. This is similar to file system "hard linking" or "aliases". Clients can also discover bindings on the server even in cases where they cannot create them. Additionally this specification clarifies some aspects of RFC3253 (Delta-V) that rely on the BIND model. Working Group Summary Discussion has taken place on the WebDAV mailing list over a long period of time as the document has evolved. There have been three "informal" last calls on the document during this time. However this document is not a WG document, as WebDAV has concluded since. Document Quality Several implementations of this specification already exist (Apache Jackrabbit, Apache Slide, SAP Netweaver KM). Additionally Java Content Repository (JCR) 2.0 ('shareable nodes' feature) and Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) ('multifiling' feature) specs both specify identical concepts which need BIND in order to be exposed via WebDAV. Discussion of how this extension might be used in CalDAV and CardDAV to implement "shared" calendars or address books is also on-going. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
