Re: I-D Action:draft-brown-versioning-link-relations-05.txt

Julian Reschke <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:13:55 +0100
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Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:
> 
> Putting something under version control really doesn't mean anything 
> beyond having multiple versions of the resource.
> There are of course a variety of other features supported by many 
> versioning servers, but having a version history is the lowest common 
> denominator.
> 
> So yes, this draft would apply to the case you describe, as long as 
> multiple separately addressable versions of the resource are provided.
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> ...

Agreed.

At least for the link relations that support the navigation between 
versions it really doesn't matter whether internally a version control 
system was used. (For the working-copy related relations things may be 
different because they somehow imply authorability of a resource).

Best regards, Julian