clients and for different output devices.  They need to be able to
   provide variants in different languages in the international
   environment of the Web.  In support of internationalization
   requirements (See 5.12 below), variants need to be supported not just
   for the content of resources, but for any information intended for
   human use, such as property values, labels, and descriptions.

5.11. Security

   5.11.1. Authentication. The WebDAV specification should state how the
   WebDAV extensions interoperate with existing authentication schemes,
   and should make recommendations for using those schemes.

   5.11.2. Access Control. Access control requirements are specified in
   a separate access control work in progress [AC].

   5.11.3. Interoperability with Security Protocols. The WebDAV
   specification must provide a minimal list of security protocols which
   any compliant server / client must support.  These protocols should
   insure the authenticity of messages and the privacy and integrity of
   messages in transit.

5.12. Internationalization

5.12.1. Character Sets and Languages

   Since Web distributed authoring occurs in a multi-lingual
   environment, information intended for user comprehension must conform
   to the IETF Character Set Policy [CHAR].  This policy addresses
   character sets and encodings, and language tagging.

5.12.2. Rationale

   In the international environment of the Internet, it is important to
   insure that any information intended for user comprehension can be
   displayed in a writing system and language agreeable to both the
   client and the server. The information encompassed by this
   requirement includes not only the content of resources, but also such
   things as display names and descriptions of properties, property
   values, and status messages.

6. Acknowledgements

   Our understanding of these issues has emerged as the result of much
   thoughtful discussion, email, and assistance by many people, who
   deserve recognition for their effort.






 
RFC 2291          Distributed Authoring and Versioning     February 1998


   Terry Allen, tallen@sonic.net
   Alan Babich, FileNet, babich@filenet.com
   Dylan Barrell, Open Text, dbarrell@opentext.ch
   Barbara Bazemore, PC DOCS, barbarab@pcdocs.com
   Martin Cagan, Continuus Software, Marty_Cagan@continuus.com
   Steve Carter, Novell, srcarter@novell.com
   Dan Connolly, World Wide Web Consortium, connolly@w3.org
   Jim Cunningham, Netscape, jfc@netscape.com
   Ron Daniel Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory, rdaniel@lanl.gov
   Mark Day, Lotus, Mark_Day@lotus.com
   Martin J. Duerst, mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
   Asad Faizi, Netscape, asad@netscape.com
   Ron Fein, Microsoft, ronfe@microsoft.com
   David Fiander, Mortice Kern Systems, davidf@mks.com
   Roy Fielding, U.C. Irvine, fielding@ics.uci.edu
   Mark Fisher, Thomson Consumer Electronics, FisherM@indy.tce.com
   Yaron Y. Goland, Microsoft, yarong@microsoft.com
   Phill Hallam-Baker, MIT, hallam@ai.mit.edu
   Dennis Hamilton, Xerox PARC, hamilton@parc.xerox.com
   Andre van der Hoek, University of Colorado, Boulder,
     andre@cs.colorado.edu
   Del Jensen, Novell, dcjensen@novell.com
   Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, kaiser@cs.columbia.edu
   Rohit Khare, World Wide Web Consortium, khare@w3.org
   Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, ora.lassila@research.nokia.com
   Ben Laurie, A.L. Digital, ben@algroup.co.uk
   Mike Little, Bellcore, little@bellcore.com
   Dave Long, America Online, dave@sb.aol.com
   Larry Masinter, Xerox PARC, masinter@parc.xerox.com
   Murray Maloney, SoftQuad, murray@sq.com
   Jim Miller, World Wide Web Consortium, jmiller@w3.org
   Howard S. Modell, Boeing, howard.s.modell@boeing.com
   Keith Moore, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, moore@cs.utk.edu
   Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium, frystyk@w3.org
   Jon Radoff, NovaLink, jradoff@novalink.com
   Alan Robertson, alanr@bell-labs.com
   Henry Sanders, Microsoft,
   Andrew Schulert, Microsoft, andyschu@microsoft.com
   Christopher Seiwald, Perforce Software, seiwald@perforce.com
   Einar Stefferud, stef@nma.com
   Richard Taylor, U.C. Irvine, taylor@ics.uci.edu
   Robert Thau, MIT, rst@ai.mit.edu
   Sankar Virdhagriswaran, sv@hunchuen.crystaliz.com