- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:51:53 +0100
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Hi Dom, On Dec 10, 2009, at 16:51 , Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > A quick comment after re-reading WARP at the invitation of Robin to DAP > [1]: I don’t think the notion of subdomain is well-defined; is w3.org a > subdomain of .org? is co a subdomain of co.uk? I assume they are in the > sense of the spec, but if that’s so, it doesn’t match the “street” > meaning of the word “subdomain”; this matters in particular in section 7 > (rules for granting access), since this has an impact on how a user > agent decides to grant access to a network resource. Given that IP > addresses are allowed, the algorithm to determine if something is a > subdomain of another domain is as simple as looking to the last dot in > the authority component. That's a fair point. Would referencing RFC 1034 in that section address your concern? I would rather not have to define subdomain ourselves but rather reuse what already exists! > (kudos on the spec otherwise; I find it to be very crisp) Thanks! -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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