Annotations futures

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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 10:12:47 +1200
From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
Message-id: <199308092212.AA04742@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Annotations futures
Status: RO

Might I suggest the following system for public annotations?

-- User annotates document, client offers it to original server with
	ANNOTATE method or somesuch, and tells the server how long
	the annotation is
-- Server can accept the annotation, and the next time the document
	is retrieved, the annotation is noted at the bottom.
-- Server can refuse the annotation, in which case, it is
	offered to an annotation server (ugh).

Annotating on the server would mean that character-offsets could be
used and preserved across revisions (the author would either
incorporate, delete or move the annotations as need be).

Sound fun?  Who's going to implement it?

Nat