- From: <Tim_Ellison@uk.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:21:28 +0100
- To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
I'll just restate my position for the record. I want to keep the label header and don't think that labels should be language encoded. Using a well defined encoding we can match on labels sufficiently well (canonicalizing if necessary) and that is all that we are required to do. The issue of two strings being interpreted differently in different languages is bogus. There are strings in a single language that are ambiguous and I don't think anyone is suggesting that we try and solve the semantics of common version labeling requirements! Others have already described situations of languages permitting variations on spelling etc. of the same word. We just don't need to go there -- a label is just a string. The use of the Label: header is useful for operations on a single resource, and invaluable for operations on groups of resources that are labeled with a single label. I'm in favour of keeping the label header as is. Regards, Tim
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