Re: Comments on Action:draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-03

Jan Algermissen wrote:
> (Sorry if this is confusing matters, but...)
> I am not sure that the notion of a 'versioned resource' is necessary at 
> all. If the draft defined 'version' instead the whole checkin/checkout 
> notion could be dropped.

The reason for making the distinction is that in many systems, versions 
and versionable resources are different things (for instance, in JCR and 
WebDAV).

> 'Working Copy' could be defined separately as a resource that is an 
> 'private copy' of a resource, one whose URI is not made available to any 
> client except upon initial creation (sorry that this is so imprecise - I 
> hope you get the idea).

The URI of a working copy may not be private at all.

...it's really to hard to come up with terminology that is compatible 
with many different system.

> IWO, the draft somehow circles around the checkin/checkout operations 
> and I am not sure that is necessary.
> 
> (But if this sounds completely insane, just ignore it)

No, I'm listening; and hoping for more feedback...

BR, Julian