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Re: [ac] Updates to Access-Control document

From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:25:36 +0100
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Brad Porter <brad@tellme.com>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>, access-control tf <member-accesscontrol-tf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20070213112536.GH30510@raktajino.does-not-exist.org>

On 2007-02-09 01:40:10 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:

> What's the use-case for suffix-matching wildcards? 

Good question.

> That seems confusing and complicated, in an area where we really
> want absolute clarity and no possibility of mistakes.

I'm tempted to agree.  The alternative proposal to the current
approach would be that wildcards match arbitrary prefixes (scoped by
label boundaries).

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 11:24:15 GMT

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