Web Versioning and Configuration Management BOF (delta-v) Wednesday, March 17 at 1300-1500 ================================ Chair: Jim Whitehead DESCRIPTION: Versioning, parallel development, and configuration management are important features for remote authoring of Web content. Version management is concerned with tracking and accessing the history of important states of a single Web resource, such as a standalone Web page. Parallel development provides additional resource availability in multi-user, distributed environments, letting authors make changes on the same resource at the same time, later merging together those changes. Configuration management addresses the problems of tracking and accessing multiple interrelated resources over time as sets of resources, not simply individual resources. Traditionally, artifacts of software development, including code, design, test cases, requirements, help files, and more have been a focus of configuration management. Web sites, comprised of multiple inter-linked resources (HTML, graphics, sound, CGI, and others), are an important class of complex information artifacts that benefit from the application of configuration management. A sub-working-group of the WebDAV working group has been examining the design space of a Web versioning and configuration management protocol, and believes the scope of this effort is sufficient to form a separate working group. This BOF meeting will present the charter of the proposed working group, and will give an overview of the preliminary results of ongoing work on the goals and broad design approach. Comments on the scope of the effort, and on the preliminary approach will be solicited during the BOF. AGENDA: * Presentation on the proposed charter (15 min.) * Overview presentation on goals and approach (15 min.) * Open microphone for feedback (30 min.)