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Re: Global tags [was: HTTP Protocol Extentions]

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:02:37 PDT
Message-ID: <341F1E1D.5291FEDB@parc.xerox.com>
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
CC: Arthur van Hoff <avh@marimba.com>, Push Workshop <www-push@w3.org>, DRP Mailing List <drp@marimba.com> 
There's no point in having multiple "URIs" as a way of doubling
the space. Maybe you could have multiple entity tags for a given
entity, though.

However, I'm now leaning toward just allowing the 'content-id' 
(the official MIME version, not the CDF version) to be used
instead of an entity tag inside an IF-MATCH, etc.

After all, content-ID is a globally unique identifier. If you
want one that's guaranteed to be based on MD5, then make it
cid:md5:NNNNNNNNNNNNN@w3.org, for example.

Larry
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Received on Tuesday, 16 September 1997 20:03:01 EDT

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