Re: Single delegation character

[Fen Labalme <fen@idcommons.org>]

Wait a minute - how does '!' have the most support?  I believe there's 
four of us (Drummond, Victor, Owen and myself at the least) who prefer 
'*' -- not to mention that there is code now using '*'.

But we really have to consider the public and not just programmers, as 
programmer could care less, or lean towards '!' (I kinda like the old 
bang addressing model myself).  But it's *users* who's community e-names 
will be either @idcommons!fen or @idcommons*fen, and from my (albeit 
informal) user surveys, they overwhelmingly prefer the latter.

We'll do another survey this weekend - I'll be comfortable with the 
results either way.

Fen


Dave McAlpin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
>