RE: [xri] Issue 1: Clarifying * Semantics

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

Are you suggesting that the : between 12 and 34 would be considered a
regular character, not a delimiter? If so, I don't think that's legal
per 2396bis.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fen Labalme [mailto:fen@idcommons.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:03 AM
> To: Loren West
> Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [xri] Issue 1: Clarifying * Semantics
> 
> Loren -
> 
> Note that :12:34 would still be a legal persistent identifier, it just
> would
> not imply a separation (or delegation) between two parts.  In other
words,
> it
> is similar to the identifier :12.34 (using the new semantics for dot
as a
> regular character).
> 
> In my strongly held opinion, if we are going to make any
simplifications,
> they
> should be aimed at making the semantics easier to understand and the
human
> friendly identifiers simpler and easier to read and (humanly) parse.
I
> believe that is what this proposed simplification does.  If it does so
at
> a
> slight cost to the human readability of non-human (machine) friendly
> identifiers, that's a good decision.
> 
> Fen
> 
> 
> Loren West wrote:
> > I understand how you see a single separator as a simplification,
> > and hope you can understand how I see ":" as a simplification
> > over "*:".  They're both "simpler", but one doesn't require
> > a change to the specification.
> 
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