Hi Steven and Erik,
I think the 3986 spec is not quite as bleak as Steven's last email.
Basically, what I believe it says is that you can determine "equality"
unambiguously. However, the same cannot be said for "inequality".
i.e. if your Policy depends on 2 URI's being equal, then you should
be OK. However, there may be cases where they are found to be
"unequal", but, in fact, could later be proved to be equal.
Also, I recommend fixing the 3.0 core spec to refer to 3986 in the
3 places 2396 is ref'd, which is in the list of refs, plus 2 other
places that you can find searching for "2396".
Also, we should make explicit the meaning of "equal" and "unequal"
in the spec by basically repeating the salient points from 3986
(as usual, all above is "imo").
Thanks,
Rich
On 10/27/2011 5:13 AM, Erik Rissanen wrote:
