- From: Arun Ranganathan <aranganathan@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:21:34 -0800 (PST)
- To: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Jonas Sicking (jonas@sicking.cc)" <jonas@sicking.cc>, Feras Moussa <ferasm@microsoft.com>, "Web Applications Working Group WG (public-webapps@w3.org)" <public-webapps@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- > The current spec requires the opaque string in Blob URLs to be at > least > 36 characters in length [1]. Our implementation doesn't currently use > a > UUID and the length of the string is shorter than 36 characters. While > I have no problem with the recommendation to use UUIDs in the spec, > since it isn't a MUST I wonder whether the length requirement needs to > be a MUST. Could we relax this requirement? > > Thanks, > > Adrian > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#OpaqueStringDiscussion Adrian: I'm willing to relax this. I suppose it *is* inconsistent to insist on 36 chars when we don't insist on UUID. But I suspect when it comes time to making blob: a registered protocol (it was discussed on the IETF/URI listserv), the lack of MUSTs will be a sticking point. We'll take that as it comes, though :) -- A*
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