Re: Rewrite of feature tag syntax rules

> How is this for a compromise:
> 
> - a feature tag is a member of the URI namespace
> - a feature tags MUST be chosen in such a way that every % in the tag
>   is the start of a %HH encoding
> - tag comparison MUST be done by decoding all %HH encodings, then doing a
>   case-insensitive octet-by-octet comparison.

    ftp://host.dom/%2ftest%2fbar

is actually a *different* resource from

   ftp://host.dom//test/bar

Defining a "feature tag equivalence relationship" which bears
no actual semantic relationship to the "URI equivalence relationship"
is "bad". Do I really need to spell out why?

Larry