Re: Three revised Internet Drafts

[Paul-Andre Pays <[e-mail]>]

Steve,

I understand and share your concern about compatibility between UFN
and DN, and have difficulties to make my mind about that

At the same time, I dislike having two forms for DN, whereas I don't
know about UFN (for which "," semms indeed a madatory choice)

thus I see 3 possibilities

option 1:
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UFN accepts only ","
DN accepts ";" and "," and output is only ";"


option 2:
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UFN accepts both "," and ";" 
DN accepts only ";"

option 3:
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UFN and DN accept a single delimiter ",".


pro and cons
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[[Background:
  ORaddresses will be represented using ";"
]]

With option 1:

   partial compatibility (limited to ",")
   awkward double representation of DN
   "," priviledged but not in line with ORaddresses

with option 2:

   partial compatibility (limited to ";")
   is it a problem for UFN (Steve?) to have 2 possibilities?
   much better with regard to ORaddresses

with option 3:

   complete compatibility (one single delimiter for all 3 representations)
   seems not acceptable for UFN
   no problems with ORaddresses


My feeling
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I would prefer option 3.
If not acceptable by UFN tenants, then option 2 is the only
acceptable solution

regards,

-- PAP