On 1/23/06, Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that entry then editable?
Nope. But it will pick out various and sundry metadata from the binary, similar to the way Flickr works. My drafts have always made it clear that servers will do this sort of thing. I think separately editable metadata can be a big win for some apps. For others, it's a non-starter. See Goland & Whitehead "The WebDAV Property Design" for a good discussion of the trade-offs and problems encountered with WebDAV's metadata containment design choices. The choice to mandate an editable and addressable entry would be very similar, though slightly better because the metadata would have a URI. Me, I'd rather use atom:link elements to point at "read-only resources", rather than get into the rathole of listing multiple and possibly redundant source resources. That has never worked on the Internet at large. link rel=edit is OK, but you don't want to overengineer the protocol from the get-go to mandate it. If it turns out to be useful, well great (though I'd bet against it). -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
