Date: Feb. 2, 1998
Link: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/requirements/rfc2291.txt
Source Author or Organization: Network Working Group

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This document presents a list of features in the form of requirements for a Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol which, if implemented, would improve the efficiency of common remote editing operations, provide a locking mechanism to prevent overwrite conflicts, improve link management support between non-HTML data types, provide a simple attribute-value metadata facility, provide for the creation and reading of container data types, and integrate versioning into the WWW."