[DBWG] --list-versions query on deleted resources?

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 3 Feb 2021, at 7:39, Nishal Goburdhan wrote:

> On 5 Jan 2021, at 11:59, Edrich de Lange wrote:

>> On 4 Dec 2020, at 9:41, Ben Maddison via DBWG wrote:

>>

>>> Hi all,

>>>

>>> The list got left off of Michel's initial response to my email, and 

>>> we

>>> only noticed once several further replies had been exchanged.

>>>

>>> See the reconstructed exchange below.

>>> TL;DR: Should prior versions of deleted objects remain query-able?

>>>

>>

>> Most definitely.

>> Kind regards

>

>

> dear working group.


dear co-chairs,



> there have now been three statements supporting the request for 

> historic information to be made available  (aka “whowas”)

> there has been admission that this is possible, and “easy” to do.

> there have been no statements indicating that this is a bad thing to 

> do.

>

> in the absence of any dissenting views, what is necessary to move this 

> forward?


ever mindful that i might have forgotten the procedure, could you please 
respond to this mundane question?

-n.