- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:33:52 -0500
- To: "Gregor Karlinger" <gregor.karlinger@cio.gv.at>, "Merlin Hughs" <merlin@baltimore.ie>
- Cc: "XMLSigWG" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>, "Harada" <harada@prs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
On Sunday 17 March 2002 16:01, Gregor Karlinger wrote: > once again our rules for encoding strings in DNames keep me busy ... > I digged a bit in the list archive because I wanted to find the rea- > son why the text in the REC is as it is. You're, unfortunately, not alone as Harada has been asking about it as well [a]. (Regadless of your immediate issue, I recommend we pull together some tests that specifically tease out DNAME encoding issues; once we agree on that interop I'll put it in the interop matrix and highlight it.) [a] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2002JanMar/0201.html > (2) The fourth bullet in the rec text states: > "Escape any trailing white space by replacing "\ " with "\20"." > According to to <merlin1> this should rather read: > "Escape a "\ " at the end of the string with "\20". > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Merlin, could you please tell me your view on the intention of the REC > encoding rules? -- Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature/ W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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