Re: "canonical" URIs

At 04:00 PM 21/03/02 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ "David Orchard" <david.orchard@bea.com> was heard to say:
>|| anyURI data type.  I think a reasonable approach would be to say that the
>| default comparision function for anyURI is to use the HTTP URI comparison
>| algorithm, but that it is overridable by any scheme.
>
>I think a more reasonable approach is to say that the default
>comparison function is lexicographic identity. 

I think I agree with Norm.  It's easy, it's cheap, and
since people are highly incented to avoid false negatives,
it's reasonable to expect caution in users. -Tim

Received on Monday, 25 March 2002 14:47:28 UTC