Re: How about "identifying URL" instead of "canonical" URL?

Or "authoritative URL"?
All the best, Ashok

On 6/23/2014 11:19 AM, Cody Burleson wrote:
> Regarding today's discussion about the ambiguity and possible inaccurate nature of our use of the the term "canonical"...
>
> How about "identifying" ?
>
> Here's how it reads:
>
> <section>
> <h3>Respond with identifying URLs and use them for identity comparison</h3>
>
> <p>Clients can access an LDPR using multiple URLs. An LDPR server
> should respond to each of those requests using a single consistent
> URL, an <em>identifying</em> URL, for the LDPR. This identifying URL may be found
> in the response's Location and/or Content-Location headers, and
> potentially also in the representation of the LDPR. A common case is
> URLs that vary by protocol, one HTTP and one HTTPS, but are
> otherwise identical. In most cases those two URLs refer to the same
> resource, and the server should respond to requests on either URL
> with a single (identity) URL.</p>
>
> <p>Clients should use the identifying URL as an LDPR's identity;
> for example, when determining if two URLs refer to the same resource
> clients should compare the identifying URLs, not the URLs used to
> access the resources.</p>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Cody Burleson
>
>