> This brings me back around to wondering why just saying that Key
> ID values are case sensitive strings is not enough, and leaving it up
> to applications how to choose the contents of those case-sensitive
> strings?

Yes, that's fine, if that's adequate for the situation.  Remember that
this all came from what's in the documents now, with statements such
as this (from JWT, Sections 5.1 and 5.2):

   While media type names are not case-sensitive,
   it is RECOMMENDED that "JWT" always be spelled using uppercase
   characters for compatibility with legacy implementations.  Use of
   this Header Parameter is OPTIONAL.

That violates the "always case sensitive" rule, and requires that you
deal with comparisons and/or normalization.

If you just say that everything is case sensitive, or REQUIRE those
strings to be case-normalized, that addresses the problem.

Barry

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