Hi Doug,
Randy and I were discussing the use of UCDs in SIAP v1.0 compliant implementation and whether they are case-sensitive, particularly the "VOX:" UCDs. Although UCD1+ specifically states that UCD names are case insensitive, I don't think there was any definitive statement regarding the original UCDs in the available documentation when SIA was first written (all the official UCDs were published as all upper-case). The SIA spec uses mixed case for the VOX UCDs; consequently, I wrote my validator to insist on a case-sensitive match. Do you think this is an overly strict interpretation?
It mainly makes a difference to clients. If we all understand these to be case-insensitive, then clients will need to transform the UCDs to a single case before comparing them.
thanks,
Ray
Received on 2007-02-12Z11:46:52