draft-newman-comparator updated

Hi,

the draft is lying silently in the internet-draft editor queue. However, 
I would appreciate reviews, speedily if possible. If you have the time 
and it isn't yet in your internet-drafts mirror, I can send a copy.

There are a few changes.

The basic and biggest change is that collation is defined in terms of 
octet strings, with explicit notes that implementations may choose to 
use character strings, and notes that in that case, e.g. i;octet may 
not be possible to implement. Various minor changes changes result.

There are also more definitions and requirements. For example, equality 
has to be implemented if ordering is, and if ordering returns equal, 
equality must return true. That sort of thing.

I am unhappy with one thing: i;octet is still used a little as a last 
resort to resolve equality/order, which brings it very close to 
mandatory-to-implement. This doesn't seem necessary from an 
architectural point of view. I just haven't found a solution I really 
like.

Arnt

Received on Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:10:35 UTC