Re: uri-comp draft necessary?

At 5:30 PM -0800 12/17/02, Tim Bray wrote:
>At several points during yesterday's TAG call, Dan claimed 
>repeatedly that URIs a and b are equivalent if (strcmp(a,b)==0) 
>equal, otherwise not, end of story.  If we believe this, we can 
>discard the uri-comp draft entirely right now and I won't put any 
>more work into editing it.  Do we believe this? -Tim

I'm willing to believe it for namespace names. I don't believe it for 
most other contexts. I think the uri-comp document is at least 
necessary to point this out.
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