Re: getting WebDAV SEARCH ready for the IESG

John Barone wrote:
> Another comment on this; there doesn't seem to be any discussion about
> issuing a SEARCH and limiting on multi-valued properties, in the WHERE.
> Is this beyond the scope of this particular draft, or is this treated in
> some other specification/draft?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -John 

Short answer: out of scope.

Long answer: this requires a common understanding of what multivalued 
properties are, and how they are serialized.

A proposal was contained in a draft of what later was published as RFC 
4316, see 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-property-datatypes-06.html#rfc.section.A>. 
Back when we discussed this, there was a preference of keeping things 
simple, and so it was removed from subsequent drafts.

That being said, I know that the proposal was implemented both by SAP 
and Xythos (although likely in different namespaces). I would be happy 
to resurrect that part of the spec as a separate activity, but today I 
wouldn't be able to update the SAP implementation anymore.

BR, Julian