A quick comment after re-reading WARP at the invitation of Robin to DAP [1]: I don’t think the notion of subdomain is well-defined; is w3.org a subdomain of .org? is co a subdomain of co.uk? I assume they are in the sense of the spec, but if that’s so, it doesn’t match the “street” meaning of the word “subdomain”; this matters in particular in section 7 (rules for granting access), since this has an impact on how a user agent decides to grant access to a network resource. Given that IP addresses are allowed, the algorithm to determine if something is a subdomain of another domain is as simple as looking to the last dot in the authority component.
(kudos on the spec otherwise; I find it to be very crisp) Dom 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
