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Re: ID wording


Greetings again. Thanks for keeping the moratorium on ID discussion. I thought it would be best to do a sanity check to be sure people were in agreement on what it seems the consensus so far was.

- The format for IDs is going to be URIs, not plain strings.

+1


- IDs must not change over time.

+1


- Even though the format is a URI, the IDs are not expected to be dereferencable (although they might be).

+1


- IDs MUST be compared character-by-character, no case-mapping, no %xx conversion, and so on.

-1. If they are URIs, why can't we treat them as such?


- Receiving and gateway systems MUST NOT alter IDs in any way.

+1


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 Anne van Kesteren
 <http://annevankesteren.nl/>