RE: [xri] Property, rel comparison

[Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>]

There is no good spec for normalization. There are general guidelines. That's the core of the problem. This is why OAuth goes out of its way to spell it out.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:01 AM
> To: 'Breno de Medeiros'
> Cc: 'Drummond Reed'; Eran Hammer-Lahav; xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xri] Property, rel comparison
> 
> Breno de Medeiros wrote on 2010-01-26:
> >> Is the rule for subject comparison going to be completely generic, or
> have
> >> special cases? But I agree, that's a reasonable point.
> >
> > The rules for subject matching will probably have to use
> > scheme-specific matching.
> 
> Isn't that part of standard normalization?
> 
> > Search engines would really like if people referred to the same
> > subject with the same string always, but unfortunately they do not. If
> > we can't tolerate mismatches like
> > http://example.com:80 and http://Example.com/ it may lead to serious
> > interop issues.
> 
> I know that's definitely covered by normalization but maybe you have other
> things in mind also?
> 
> -- Scott
>