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Extensions for Distributed Authoring on the World
Wide Web
[PDF]
[List of Changes from 07]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del Jensen
This document represents the current Design Team proposed solution for
providing an interoperability specification for how to perform
distributed authoring and versioning capability within the HTTP
framework. Note that the text version of the document is the
authoritative representation, and if there are differences between the
text version and other versions, the text version is always
correct. Currently at Internet-Draft revision 08, April 7,
1998.This draft was submitted to the IESG for standards track
approval on April 9, 1998..
UUIDS and GUIDS
Paul Leach, Rich Salz
This document describes the format and creation algorithm for
universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). UUIDs are used in the
WebDAV Distributed Authoring protocol specification for lock tokens.
Currently at Internet-Draft revision 01, February 4, 1998. This
draft was submitted to the IESG for standards track approval on
March 5, 1998.
Requirements
for Advanced Collection Functionality in WebDAV
Judith Slein
This draft sets out requirements for more advanced, optional
collection functionality beyond that supported by the distributed
authoring protocol specification. It extends the base functionality in
two general directions: support for referential members, and support
for ordered collections. Currently at Internet-Draft revision 01,
May 20, 1998.
WebDAV
Advanced Collections Protocol
Judith Slein
This draft specifies a protocol for creating and manipulating
referential members and ordered collections. Currently at
Internet-Draft
revision 00, June 5, 1998.
HTTP-based Distributed Content Editing Scenarios
Ora Lassila
[Version History]
This document collects scenarios of usage of distributed authoring
and versioning tools which have been described by working
group members. Currently at Internet-Draft revision level 00,
May 31, 1997, <draft-ietf-webdav-scenarios-00.txt>. This draft
replaces <draft-lassila-http-edit-dist-00.txt>.
Access Control Requirements Home Page
Requirements for Access
Control within Distributed Authoring and Versioning Environments on
the World Wide Web
Howard Palmer
This is the editor's web page for the access control requirements
document. The latest draft of the access control requirements
document is currently at Internet-Draft revision level 00, November
17, 1997, <draft-ietf-webdav-acreq-00.txt>.
WebDAV ACL Protocol
Paul Leach, Yaron Y. Goland
This document describes a protocol for access control on
web resources on a WebDAV server. Currently at Internet-Draft
revision level 00, November 10, 1997,
<draft-ietf-webdav-acl-00.txt>.
A Web
Versioning Protocol
Jim Whitehead
This document describes a protocol for versioning and variant
authoring of Web resources. Currently at Internet-Draft revision
level 00, June 9, 1998., <draft-whitehead-webdav-versioning-00.txt>.
These documents have been approved by the IESG.
Requirements
for a Distributed
Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web
Judith Slein, Fabio Vitali, Jim Whitehead, David Durand
[Version History]
This document describes high-level functional requirements for
distributed authoring and versioning on the Web, and has been issued
as Internet Informational RFC 2291. This document is now
complete.
There have been many meetings held on the topic of distributed authoring and versioning on the Web. The minutes, agenda, and participants are available for many of the meetings. In reverse chronological order:
Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol
Jim Cunningham, Asad Faizi
This protocol specification provides an example of how some of the
distributed authoring and versioning requirements can be satisfied
by method extensions to HTTP. Currently at author's draft v0.1.
Version management with meta-level links via HTTP/1.1
K. Ota, K. Takahashi, K. Sekiya
This Internet-Draft describes version management of WWW resources
within the HTTP/1.1 framework. The approach uses
meta-level links, which is not an anchor of HTML format, but an
attribute of the resource. This allows versioning to be performed
on non-HTML format resources.
WebDAV Tree
Operations
Yaron Y. Goland, Saveen Reddy
This document specifies the methods DELETE-TREE, COPY-TREE, and
MOVE-TREE which perform the equivalent of a DELETE, COPY, and MOVE
across a collection and all its progeny. Currently at Internet-Draft
revision level 01, November 6, 1997,
<draft-ietf-webdav-depth-01.txt>.
draft-ietf-html-relrev-00.txt
Hypertext links in HTML
Murray Maloney, SoftQuad
This document presents a list of standard HTML link types for use
in the HTML LINK element. Issued as an Internet-Draft, it is currently
expired, but still of interest to this working group.
Authoring Tools Breakout Session at
WWW4
Discussion on how to achieve interoperability among distributed web
content authoring tools was the focus of this breakout session
following the "development tools" session on developers day at WWW4.
This session identified a list of issues which affect the interoperability
of distributed editing tools, including access control, getting raw
HTML before server processing, authentication, versioning (the
lost update problem), document DTD labeling, BROWSE and MKDIR
methods, editing of variants, and others.
The BSCW System
Papers and Information on BSCW
This system provides a shared workspace for interacting with
web content. The system supports Netscape 2/3 Gold style POST
writing of content to a BSCW web server, checkout/checkin of
content, and support for notification of other user's actions
within the workspace.
DMA 1.0 Specification
The
Document Management Alliance is a task force of the
Association for Information
and Image Management International (AIIM) which is charged
with developing an interoperability specification across
document management systems. The DMA 1.0 specification has been
approved for general use by the DMA Advisory Council as of
December, 1997.
Open Document Management API
The Open Document Management API (ODMA) is a standard API
used between client applications and document management systems.
Providing support for managing the history of a document, allowing for parallel development of an entity, managing the membership of versionable collections of versioned entities, and providing support for browsing collections of versioned entities are all important problems that need to be addressed to support interoperability of distributed web content authoring tools. These issues are being addressed by a sub-group, the Working Group on Versioning and Configuration Management of World Wide Web Content.
Microsoft
FrontPage
FrontPage Product Information
Microsoft FrontPage, formerly Vermeer FrontPage, is an HTML editor
which can save work to an HTTP server which has been augmented with
the FrontPage server extensions.
America Online PrimeHost
AOLpress
and AOLserver
Documentation for
AOLpress and
AOLserver
The America Online PrimeHost hosting service, formerly known as the
GNN Hosting Service, which in turn was formerly known as NaviSoft,
provides a service for using their AOLpress software to publish web
pages on their server for a monthly fee. Since you can currently
download
fully-functional, but non-supported versions of their AOLpress and
AOLserver tools, it is also possible to experiment with these
tools.
AOLpress employs the PUT method to write content to the AOLserver, which implements access control features which control, among other methods, who can PUT to particular namespaces within the server. The documentation for the AOLserver describes how it distinguishes BROWSE, PUT, MKDIR and DELETE as different administrative rights on operations.
Netscape
Communicator
Communicator Data Sheet
Netscape Communicator provides authoring of HTML documents, along with
publishing capability. Communicator can use the FTP and HTTP
protocols to remotely write content into the namespace of the HTTP
server.
MKS
Web Integrity
Web Integrity Data Sheet
Web Integrity provides remote authoring and versioning capability.
Versioning features include check-in/check-out, change history,
and visual differencing.
NetObjects
TeamFusion
White
Paper (PDF)
A multiuser client/server authoring system which supports
checkin/checkout version control and a content contribution applet
which allows remote uploading of web site content by end-users.
W3C
Amaya Browser/Editor
Amaya is a graphical web browser that also provides web authoring
capabilities. Its main features are WYSIWYG editing of web pages,
cascading style sheets, a full implementation of HTML 3.2, and publishing
on remote HTTP servers using the PUT method.
W3C
Line Mode Browser
Command Reference Manual
This character-based web browser was developed for use on terminals,
but can be run in interactive mode, non-interactive mode, and as a proxy
client. Among its many features, the Line Mode Browser has a PUT
command which writes a document to a remote HTTP server from either
the local filesystem or a remote HTTP server.
Last modified: 9 June 1998