From: brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan)
Message-Id: <9410250629.AA17292@hysteria.hal.com>
Subject: Re: Current URN syntax is unacceptable
To: uri@bunyip.com
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 1:29:09 CDT
In-Reply-To: <199410241854.OAA03368@postman.osf.org>; from "Norbert Leser - OSF DCE:" at Oct 24, 94 2:53 pm
I pretty much agree with Norbert's points, except for the following:
> For the purpose of simple name comparison only, instances (such as
> client interpreters) that don't have the naming authority's knowledge,
> case matching is insensitive and white spaces are not significant.
Why does it need to be case insensitive? If the string is opaque,
then so be it. Why can't a client just do a straight comparison?
-- Dave Brennan HaL Software Systems brennan@hal.com Austin, TX, USA