Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-11-04 Thread Scott Lawrence
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: > > This is clearly a tradeoff between server flexibility and client's > > being able to know what to do, so let's look at whether a client can > > actually do something with the information. In the case of a > > concurrent patch, if the clie

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-11-02 Thread Eliot Lear
On 10/30/09 10:27 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: This draft places unreasonable restriction on servers about processing requests. Specifically, in §2.2, [[ Concurrent modificati

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-11-02 Thread SM
Hi Lisa, At 10:07 30-10-2009, Lisa Dusseault wrote: > Malformed patch document: When the server determines that the patch > document provided by the client is not properly formatted, it SHOULD > return a 400 (Bad Request) response. The definition of badly > formatted depends on

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-11-02 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: This draft places unreasonable restriction on servers about processing requests. Specifically, in §2.2, [[ Concurrent modification: When a server receives multiple concurren

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-30 Thread Lisa Dusseault
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM, SM wrote: > > In Section 2: > >  "If the entire patch document cannot be successfully applied >   then the server MUST fail the entire request, applying none >   of the changes." > > I suggest rewriting the sentence: > >   If the entire patch document cannot

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-30 Thread Lisa Dusseault
Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: > > This draft places unreasonable restriction on servers about processing > requests. Specifically, in §2.2, > > [[ > Concurrent modification: When a server receives multiple concurrent requests > to modify a resource, those requests S

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-29 Thread SM
At 07:40 27-10-2009, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'PATCH Method for HTTP ' as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Pleas

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-29 Thread Nikunj R. Mehta
This draft places unreasonable restriction on servers about processing requests. Specifically, in §2.2, [[ Concurrent modification: When a server receives multiple concurrent requests to modify a resource, those requests SHOULD be queued and processed in the order in which they are received

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-28 Thread Julian Reschke
Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: This draft places unreasonable restriction on servers about processing requests. Specifically, in §2.2, [[ Concurrent modification: When a server receives multiple concurrent requests to modify a resource, those requests SHOULD be queued and processed in the order in

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-27 Thread Julian Reschke
The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'PATCH Method for HTTP ' as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive c

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-27 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > > - 'PATCH Method for HTTP ' >   as a Proposed Standard This could be sort of a nitpick, but It seems to me that this could be used for both simple sequences of bytes, and