Re: [entity-resolution] Re: Spec comments to process

[Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

At 13:30 2003 10 02 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:

>| - Section 6.3, forcing URIs to be encoded removes the benefits of utf-8.
>|
>|  1. they must be escaped completely to the appropriate ascii form in the doc
>|     either you do the comparison using whatever form is given and you'd expect
>|     the caller to do the escaping
>|  2. there is no normative required escaping, make sure your catalog documents
>|     are using URIs escaped in the same way as the caller
>|  3. use the full breadth of utf-8 and escape only the URI reserved symbols.
>|     do the same thing from the caller.
>|
>|   note: we don't say anything about the application calling the resolver.
>|   either the resolver normalizes all of them, or both the catalog editor and
>|   the app layer must do normalization as specified in 6.3.
>
>I don't know what to do about this one.


I'm not quite able to get my head around this.

What's the issue, the pros and cons, and the right answer?

paul