Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:59, Nathan wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>> Nathan,
>> If you are going to make claims about the effect of other
>> specifications on RDF, could you please include pointers to the parts
>> of specifications that you are referring to, ideally with illustrative
>> examples of the problems you are? Absent that it is too difficult to
>> evaluate your claims.
>> The conversations on such topics too often devolve into serial opinion
>> dumping. If this is to be at all productive we need to be as precise
>> as possible.
> 
> Good idea :)
> 
> I'll create a new page on the wiki and add some examples over the next few days, then reply with a pointer later in the week.
> 
> ps: as an illustration of how engrained URI normalization is, I've capitalized the domain names in the to: and cc: fields, I do hope the mail still come through, and hope that you'll accept this email as being sent to you. Hopefully we'll also find this mail in the archives shortly at htTp://lists.W3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Jan/ - Personally I'd hope that any statements made using these URIs (asserted by man or machine) would remain valid regardless of the (incorrect?-)casing.


Heh.  OK, I'll bite.  Domain names in email addressing are defined in IETF RFC 2822 (and its predecessor RFC 822), which defers the interpretation to RFC 1035 ("Domain names - implementation and specification).  RFC 1035 section 2.3.3 states that domain names in DNS, and therefore in (E)SMTP, are to be compared in a case-insensitive manner.

As far as I know, the W3C specs do not so refer to RFC 1035.

:)

Regards,
Dave



> 
> Best,
> 
> Nathan
> 

Received on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:52:11 UTC