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Re: A request for formal registration of "ucode" as URN

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 11 January 2012 22:27 UTC

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On 1/11/12 11:08 AM, Ted Hardie wrote:
> Ishikawa-san,
> 
> Thank you very much for your note.  I have reviewed the formal
> registration request, and I believe it is complete and largely
> correct.  I would like to ask one clarifying question.  As written
> now, the <hex-decimal> production seems to allow only the use of upper
> case A-F:
> 
> <hex-decimal>     = "0" / "1" / "2" / "3" / "4" / "5" / "6" / "7" /
>                      "8" / "9" / "A" / "B" / "C" / "D" / "E" / "F"
> 
> I would suggest that it permit the use of lower case la-f as well,
> even if the preferred presentation format of the name uses the upper
> case.  There are many hexadecimal representations which do not
> distinguish between the two, so I believe it would be better practice
> to permit them.

Hi Ted,

That would be inconsistent with this sentence in Section 2 of
draft-ishikawa-yrpunl-ucode-urn:

   The entire UCODE-URN is case-sensitive.

Peter

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