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Subject: RE: [security-services] Changes for Core 26
If there is a precedent that is fine with me. Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng. Principal Scientist VeriSign Inc. pbaker@verisign.com 781 245 6996 x227 > -----Original Message----- > From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@sun.com] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:39 PM > To: security-services@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [security-services] Changes for Core 26 > > > At 11:14 AM 2/8/02 -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > > >The canonical form in 2396 is pretty robust and the rules are very > >straightforward, > > > >Essentially the only place where case insensitivity comes in > is in the part > >of a URI that is a DNS name. > > > >Even if the file is located on a Windows or VMS machine http://foo.com/Fred >is not equivalent to http://foo.com/FRED or http://foo.com/fred Even so, I think we should continue to restrict string matches to exact, case-sensitive matches, as XML Namespaces does for namespace URIs. Since we don't mandate that any of these URIs necessarily be resolvable, using URI resolution machinery (which *might* know about the special http: matching rules) to handle them seems too heavyweight in most cases. Eve -- Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center eve.maler @ sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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