Re: [precis] some open issues

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 3/7/12 2:00 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:55:05PM -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>>>> The problem statement document mentions the need to specify whether an
>>>> application protocol preserves case. However, the framework document
>>>> does not require profile documents to specify whether they preserve
>>>> case, nor does it provide guidelines or mechanisms for doing so.
>>>
>>> This came up more than once in discussion, however, so I presume
>>> people still think it's important.
>>
>> Right. The question is whether we need a way to signal that somehow
>> (ick) or whether, as Joe says, we can leave it up to entities which
>> function as "registrars" in a given application protocol.
> 
> Well, the reason for it is, I guess, obvious; but in case anyone
> hasn't been following: a lot of protocols have the idea of
> case-insensitive matching.  This is trivial in ASCII and at least hard
> in everything else.  If case is never preserved, then we don't have to
> worry about it.  If case is preserved but also relevant for matching,
> then we don't actually need to worry about it either.  But if case is
> preserved but matching is supposed to be case-insensitive, then
> everything hurts.  I'm ok with punting this to the individual
> protocols, but I think at the very least we need to explain in some
> detail why they need to make a decision (and maybe suggest what it
> ought to be).

Yes, that seems quite reasonable.

Peter

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