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Re: Angle brackets surrounding Content-ID

2004-10-12 12:00:12

Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Bruce Lilly <ietf-822(_at_)imc(_dot_)org> writes:

None the less can you please give an actual case when case would 
change during transport? 

A trivial case is transcription from spoken or written material,
and I can think of at least one individual who habitually
transcribes domain names to all upper-case.

If nothing ever changes the case then you make as well do 
the faster case-sensitive compare.

The difference in speed is quite small (if implemented well).

If anything could change the case then you must do the insensitive 
compare.

Several things could, therefore case insensitive comparisons
are called for.