On 2/2/05 10:03 AM, "Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aren't we approaching this problem from the wrong end? The id spec > should be instructions for publishers saying "Any two versions of the > same entry must use the same id, which requires that all characters are > the same. Any two different entries must have different ids, which > requires that at least one character is different [we could also go > further and say they should canonicalize to different things or some > such]." That way publishers know what to do, consumers know what the > publishers are trying to express, but aren't constrained in their > implementations, and we also define "permanent" and "universally > unique", which the current spec fails to.
+1
