- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:39:26 -0800
- To: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- CC: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Miles Sabin wrote: > noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote, > > >Would it make sense to augment the normative Namespaces rule on > >character-by-character comparison with a health warning: "NOTE: > >although namespace identity is determined on a character match basis, > >users are strongly discouraged from intentionally creating distinct > >namespaces named by URIs that would be considered equal per RFC 2396 > >or other governing specifications." Or some such. > > > In what _practical_ way is this different from changing the Namespaces > rule from character-by-character comparison to RFC 2396/deployed > network infrastructure comparison? In the practical sense that it does not require _any_ deployed software to change its behaviour. Paul Prescod
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