Re: proposed change to COOKIE-INCLUDE

I see some advantages and some disadvantages with the proposed change.

The matching with xml element-attributes instead of a xml element-value in 
PRFs is probably more robust (I guess in both cases wildcards are still 
allowed).
For example tokenizing a cookie-namespace-string by white-space (single SP or 
LWS?!) delimiters will not be an issue anymore.

On the other hand this would vitiate the possibility to use the same 
matching-code for all three kinds of in-/exclude elements (that is 
IN-/EXCLUDE, EMBEDDED-IN-/EXCLUDE and COOKIE-IN-/EXCLUDE).

As for cookie-values beeing useful it would be nice to hear a comment from 
someone who actually builds policies (with relevant cookie information).

Regards
Sebastian Kamp