Single delegation character

["Dave McAlpin" <Dave.McAlpin@epok.net>]

Since ! seems to have the most current support, I'll use it as a
stand-in for the dot replacement. Parsing XRIs is difficult because of
cross-references. The added complexity of two second level delimiters
instead of one is miniscule. I generally understand the argument that
since there's a single first level delimiter, there's some goodness in
the parallelism of a single second level delimiter, but it doesn't seem
strong enough to be the deciding factor. As for readability, do you
really prefer xri:@:1!:2!:3 over xri:@:1:2:3?

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fen Labalme [mailto:fen@idcommons.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:35 AM
> To: Dave McAlpin
> Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [xri] Possible changes to XRI 1.0
> 
> Thank you, Dave, for an excellent summary of proposed changes.  One
> omission is the proposal to define '*' as the sole delegation
character.
>   This would make parsers easier to write, XRIs easier to read, and
> plays nicely against the single hierarchy character '/'.  But I'll
leave
> further discussion of this point to Drummond.
>