Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-webdav-bind-23

"McCann Peter-A001034" <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2009 12:41:47 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.gen-art,gmane.ietf.webdav
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer
for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html
<http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html> ). 

Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
you may receive. 

Document: draft-ietf-webdav-bind-23
Reviewer: Pete McCann
Review Date: 29 May 2009
IETF LC End Date: 28 May 2009
IESG Telechat date: unknown 

Summary: Ready for publication as Experimental.  I had a few minor
         questions that might just be a result of my own lack of
         understanding.

Major issues: 

Minor issues: 

Section 2.3:
   If because of multiple
   bindings to a resource, more than one source resource updates a
   single destination resource, the order of the updates is server
   defined.
Are you trying to say that a Request-URI can map to more than one
resource?  I didn't think this was possible.

   If a COPY request would cause a new resource to be created as a copy
   of an existing resource, and that COPY request has already created a
   copy of that existing resource, the COPY request instead creates
   another binding to the previous copy, instead of creating a new
   resource.
This confused me a bit, but after reading the examples in the next
section I think I understand what is intended here: do you mean that
if the resource graph pointed at by the Request-URI itself has multiple
bindings to the same resouce, that resource is only copied once by 
the COPY operation?




Nits/editorial comments: 

Abstract:  s/insure/ensure/