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

Jan Algermissen wrote:
> 
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:
> 
>>
>> Note that versioning servers without working copies often still 
>> require a checkout/checkin protocol.
>> The "checkout" method is used as a notification to other users that 
>> this client is working on that resource.
>> The "checkin" method is used to tell the server "I want you to create 
>> a new version with the current content" (while a PUT just updates the 
>> current content without creating a new version).
> 
> In this case, checkout/checkin is also orthogonal to the notion of 
> versioning and would not need to be mentioned in the spec. IOW, the only 
> reason mentioning checkin/checkout in the spec is because the definition 
> of working copy depends on it.
> ...

Does it?

"A "working copy" is a resource at a server-defined URL that can be 
modified to create a new version of a versioned resource."

Best regards, Julian