On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:59, Nathan wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> Nathan, >> If you are going to make claims about the effect of other >> specifications on RDF, could you please include pointers to the parts >> of specifications that you are referring to, ideally with illustrative >> examples of the problems you are? Absent that it is too difficult to >> evaluate your claims. >> The conversations on such topics too often devolve into serial opinion >> dumping. If this is to be at all productive we need to be as precise >> as possible. > > Good idea :) > > I'll create a new page on the wiki and add some examples over the next few > days, then reply with a pointer later in the week. > > ps: as an illustration of how engrained URI normalization is, I've > capitalized the domain names in the to: and cc: fields, I do hope the mail > still come through, and hope that you'll accept this email as being sent to > you. Hopefully we'll also find this mail in the archives shortly at > htTp://lists.W3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Jan/ - Personally I'd hope > that any statements made using these URIs (asserted by man or machine) would > remain valid regardless of the (incorrect?-)casing.
Heh. OK, I'll bite. Domain names in email addressing are defined in IETF RFC 2822 (and its predecessor RFC 822), which defers the interpretation to RFC 1035 ("Domain names - implementation and specification). RFC 1035 section 2.3.3 states that domain names in DNS, and therefore in (E)SMTP, are to be compared in a case-insensitive manner. As far as I know, the W3C specs do not so refer to RFC 1035. :) Regards, Dave > > Best, > > Nathan >