Re: [xri] DNS XRD Discovery proposal

[Peter Davis <peter.davis@neustar.biz>]

On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:

>>>>> 4. Not clear to me why the #blah gets preserved?
>>>>
>>>> I showed that one deliberately, since it seemed important for  
>>>> some for
>>>> key
>>>> selection and trust processing discussions rooted in [1]
>>>
>>> I'm sure it was deliberate, but I still don't understand why it gets
>>> preserved.
>>
>> For that, I'll bow to those discussing the point wrt providerID/ 
>> Service
>> Provider, who seem to be implying that fragment identifiers are  
>> important
>> for key verification and selection.  If I've mis-interpreted their  
>> use case,
>> I'm happy to drop the fragment ID.
>
> Sorry, not being clear. AFAICS your regex does not preserve it, so it
> seemed to get preserved by magic. I am asking about the nature of that
> magic.

Ah!  editor error :-)  But i can blame it on a bug in the regex tool I  
used to validate the examples [1].  I'll fix that in my next pass.

=peterd

[1] http://gskinner.com/RegExr/