request for WG to adopt draft-chadwick-webdav-00.txt as a work item

[George Michaelson <[e-mail]>]

I am very interested in the construction of a systematic framework for
webdav based publication protocols to be used to publish into
repositories. Other WG areas of work are considering adoption of
certificate based models which require large, distributed repositories
to be maintained, and will imply a repository provisioning protocol.

I therefore wish to propose the WG adopt draft-chadwick-webdav-00.txt as a work item.

I would also like to ask that the document be slightly modified, to
present two distinct parts in the proposal

1) that part which documents use of WEBDAV as a repository publication
   protocol and the use of a REST model.

2) that part which discusses naming of the repository objects in the
   repository, eg for use in the SIA and AIA fields, and the related
   REST model name mapping.

The reason I ask that it be re-worked in this way is that there are
other models of repository naming architecture which do not have
'deep' RDN name structure in the certificate Subject name, and are less
ameanable to a deterministic mapping as Dave has proposed. If the
document is re-worked slightly to make it plain that this is only one
of many repository naming models, it will be easier for related work to
cite this document in reference to part 1) use of WEBDAV and to draw up
a distinct repository name mapping function reflecting part 2) in
spirit.

I have some very minor concerns with stipulating the correct TLS
version to support virtual webhost naming in a secured connection to
the server during WEBDAV binding. I am sure these can be very easily
addressed.

Thanks to Dave Chadwick for writing this draft, and presenting it at
IETF69 Chicago.

-George