Subject: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-dusseault-http-patch-05.txt

From: Lisa Dusseault <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:06:22 -0700

This is the latest version of PATCH.  Compared to the -04 draft:
  - Moved sections for interoperability with RFC3744 (ACL) and RFC3230 
(Instance digests) to new section
  - now has Security Considerations and IANA Considerations sections
  - removed references in abstract
  - No longer uses "DAV:" namespace for any new syntax, instead defines 
own namespace & registers with IANA

Once again, if I don't get feedback that requires changes beyond typos, 
I intend to submit this to standards track for consideration as a 
Proposed Standard in a week or two.  Except for the fact that this is 
not an official WG document for either WebDAV or HTTP, this constitutes 
kind of a WG last call.

All the feedback so far in both groups has been great but because 
there's been fairly close review I don't expect a lot more changes.  
I'm still hoping to hear from people who intend to implement this if it 
becomes an RFC.

Lisa

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> 	Title		: Partial Document Changes (PATCH Method) for HTTP
> 	Author(s)	: L. Dusseault
> 	Filename	: draft-dusseault-http-patch-05.txt
> 	Pages		: 18
> 	Date		: 2004-8-31
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> Several applications extending HTTP require a feature to do partial
> resource modification.  Existing HTTP functionality only allows a
> complete replacement of a document. This proposal adds a new HTTP
> method, PATCH, to modify an existing HTTP resource.
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