Title: Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web
Author(s): J. Slein, F. Vitali, E. Whitehead, D. Durand.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Feb 1998
Length: 44036
Current World Wide Web (WWW or Web) standards provide simple support for applications which allow remote editing of typed data. In practice, the existing capabilities of the WWW have proven inadequate to support efficient, scalable remote editing free of overwriting conflicts. This document presents a list of features in the form of requirements for a Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol which, if implemented, would improve the efficiency of common remote editing operations, provide a locking mechanism to prevent overwrite conflicts, improve link management support between non-HTML data types, provide a simple attribute-value metadata facility, provide for the creation and reading of container data types, and integrate versioning into the WWW.
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