  RE: Internationalization Requirements  From: Dylan Barrell
<dbarrell@bb.opentext.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 05:03:29 -0400
Message-ID: <01BC98B8.19069F00@cassius.opentext.ch> To: Dylan
Barrell <dbarrell@bb.opentext.com>, "'Roy T. Fielding'"
<fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> >>I have stated that I believe that
any authoring extension for a standard >>which allows content
language to be negotiated (hence hiding the URLs of >>the
individual language versions from the consumer) should provide
the >>same level of abstraction to the authors. It seems as
though the rest of >>the group does not agree. >I can't speak
for the rest of the group, but I can explain why that
>abstraction is neither possible nor desirable. >Server-driven
negotiation requires a namespace mapping between the >server's
back-end "files" (whatever storage name is used to store the
>representations) and the negotiated URL.  In order to write
directly >to a negotiated URL, the server would have to be able
to identify which >of these back-end "files"