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Re: ID wording

To: Graham <dtcd@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ID wording
From: Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:18:02 -0700
Cc: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>, Atom WG <atom-syntax@xxxxxxx>
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On Aug 18, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Graham wrote:

(I still don't understand the case for canonicalized ids - is there some reason for it beyond gateways that accidentally canonicalize not doing any damage?)

java.net.URI and the C# equivalent... a programmer sees that an atom:id is a URI and uses such things to store them, and well, they try to be smart. Yes, the programmer probably shouldn't do that. -Tim

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