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- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:49:35 -0000
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#96: add definition of terms and introduction to comparison document Changes (by masinter@…): * status: assigned => closed * resolution: => fixed Comment: <section title="Comparison, Equivalence, Normalization and Canonicalization"> <t>In general, when considering a set of items or strings, there are several interrelated concepts. A comparison method determines, between two items in the set, their relationship. In particular, a comparison method for determining equivalence might result in a determination that two (different) items are equivalent, known to be different, or that equivalence isn't determined. </t> <t> One way to define a comparison for equivalence is to define a a normalization or canonicalization algorithm. For each item in a set of equivalent items, one of them could be designated the "normal" or "canonical" form. </t> <t>These general concepts are used with IRIs in this document, and in other circumstances, where a mapping from one sequence of Unicode characters to another one could be described as a "normalization" algorithm.</t> <t> In general, this document tries to stay with the "equivalence" or "comparison" methods, become some times the mathematical notion of "normalization" results in forms that ordinary users might not consider "normal" in an ordinary sense. </t> </section> -- ------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: masinter@… | Owner: masinter@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: major | Milestone: Component: comparison | Version: Severity: - | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | ------------------------+------------------------- Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/iri/trac/ticket/96#comment:3> iri <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/iri/>
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