RE: [security-services] Changes for Core 26

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

If there is a precedent that is fine with me.

Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng.
Principal Scientist
VeriSign Inc.
pbaker@verisign.com
781 245 6996 x227


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@sun.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:39 PM
> To: security-services@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [security-services] Changes for Core 26
> 
> 
> At 11:14 AM 2/8/02 -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> 
> >The canonical form in 2396 is pretty robust and the rules are very
> >straightforward,
> >
> >Essentially the only place where case insensitivity comes in 
> is in the part
> >of a URI that is a DNS name.
> >
> >Even if the file is located on a Windows or VMS machine 
http://foo.com/Fred
>is not equivalent to http://foo.com/FRED or http://foo.com/fred

Even so, I think we should continue to restrict string matches to exact, 
case-sensitive matches, as XML Namespaces does for namespace URIs.  Since 
we don't mandate that any of these URIs necessarily be resolvable, using 
URI resolution machinery (which *might* know about the special http: 
matching rules) to handle them seems too heavyweight in most cases.

         Eve
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Eve Maler                                    +1 781 442 3190
Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center   eve.maler @ sun.com


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