1034 sounds like the appropriate normative reference for this sort of thing. -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <[email protected]>
On 4 Mar 2010, at 15:51, Robin Berjon wrote: > Hi Dom, > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 16:51 , Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: >> 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. > > That's a fair point. Would referencing RFC 1034 in that section address your > concern? I would rather not have to define subdomain ourselves but rather > reuse what already exists! > >> (kudos on the spec otherwise; I find it to be very crisp) > > Thanks! > > -- > Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ > > > > >
