Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web
RFC 2291, “Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web”, is an Informational document published in February 1998 by J. Slein, F. Vitali, E. Whitehead, D. Durand. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
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. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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