WebDAV Working Group

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WebDAV Working Group

• Vienna IETF
• July 2003

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Agenda

• Interop plans 5 min
• Various draft status
• ACL progress
• RFC2518bis issues

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Various draft status

• Ordering
• Minor nits
• ACL editor will receive anyway
• Binding
• Still requires significant explanation if not
  changes
• Search
• Minor progress

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ACL progress

• Addressed IESG review issues
• Issue too many possible semantics
• Resolution chose one
• Issue hard for clients to tell what ACL server
  will allow
• Resolution added acl-semantics info property
• Issue no clear privilege for DELETE method
• Resolution added unbind privilege
• Issue allows insecure Basic auth
• Resolution Implementation of the ACL spec
  requires that Basic authentication, if used, MUST
  only be supported over secure transport such as
  TLS.

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More ACL changes

• Attempt to make mapping between methods and
  permissions more clear
• who am I request header, response header
  contains answer

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RFC2518 bis Issues

• DTD usage
• Do we include DTDs at all
• Do we use content ANY or content a specific list
  of child elements
• How do we show/enforce extensibility?
• How do we show namespace usage (e.g. on
  attributes)?
• 207 response to DELETE failures
• Again
• Keep or toss

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RFC2518bis issues

• Stronger requirement for ETag support
• Still not MUST