WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning BOF

Wednesday, December 11 at 0900-1130
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DESCRIPTION:

This group has strong ties with the World Wide Web Consortium and
with the IETF HTTP WG, but at present does not have official sponsorship by
either the W3C or the IETF.  The membership of this WG is very diverse,
containing members from Microsoft, Netscape, W3C, America Online, Xerox
PARC, Xerox, in addition to many members from Document Management Alliance
companies, configuration management companies, all active hypertext
versioning researchers, and several others who cannot be easily
categorized.  To date, the WG has produced a document outlining scenarios
of usage of distributed authoring and versioning capability, along with
documents describing the requirements for distributed authoring and for
versioning in the WWW context.  At present, our WG is developing a
preliminary interoperability specification for meeting these requirements.

Detailed information on the WG can be found at the group's web page:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/

AGENDA:
 
 - Presentation giving the history of distributed authoring and 
versioning activities to date, brief overview of what is DAV, 
an overview of the WG's activities (30-45 min). J. Whitehead.
- Presentation on the DAV requirements (1 hour).  J. Whitehead
- Presentation on the preliminary DAV specification (1 hour). 
Y. Goland Each presentation will allow for Q&A throughout.  The 
intent of the session is to inform the IETF community on the work 
the WG has been performing, to receive feedback on our direction, 
requirements, and approach, and to solicit new members.