Welcome to the mailing list for the Working Group on Versioning and Configuration Management of World Wide Web Content! If you are receiving this mail, it is because you have previously indicated an interest in discussing issues related to versioning and configuration management on the WWW. If you would like to be removed from this list, please send email to <www-vers-wg-request>. Conversely, <www-vers-wg-request> is also the address for requests to be added to the list. While this should probably be our first item of discussion, my view of the purpose of this group is as follows: The purpose of this working group is to develop a preliminary specification for how to provide versioning and configuration management of content served by an HTTP server. It is intented that once this preliminary specification becomes stable, it will be presented to an appropriate forum (most likely the IETF HTTP Working Group, and publication as a W3C technical report) for further discussion, refinement, and eventual integration into appropriate internet standards. It is intended that this working group will cooperate with efforts to develop proposed standards to foster interoperability between distributed web content authoring tools. The issue of versioning and configuration management of web content is considered to be an important aspect of the larger effort to ensure interoperability between these HTTP write-capabable tools. You can find this declaration of purpose, along with much other background information at a web site established for this group: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/versioning/ I'd like to thank Larry Masinter and Dan Connolly for pointing me in the direction of the majority of the content on this page. I consider this page to be a work-in-progress, so please let me know if you think I should add a link, or some extra information. I'm learning about new efforts in the area of WWW versioning and CM support constantly, and I'm sure you are too. Please pass along what you know so I can make it available to all. People are always curious to know who is on a mailing list, so I list below the current members of this list. If you know of anyone else who is interested in this topic and would like to be added to the list, please pass their name along to me. Thanks! Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu> Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Kenji Takahasi <kt@nttlabs.com> Daniel Connolly <connolly@w3.org> Marty Cagan <Marty_Cagan@continuus.com> Jennifer Janik <jennifer@mks.com> Christopher Seiwald <seiwald@p3.com> Robert C. Pettengill <rcp@austin.sar.slb.com> Dave Long <dave@navisoft.com> David J. Fiander <davidf@mks.com> Ari Luotonen <ari@netscape.com> Tom Kelly <tom@mks.com> Dale Gass <dale@mks.com> Bruce Payette <bruce@mks.com> David Rowley <david@mks.com> - Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>