[occi-wg] HTTP Header Serialization Format, use of Attribute header

[Ralf Nyren]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:19:05 +0200, Edmonds, AndrewX  
<andrewx.edmonds at intel.com> wrote:

> As we use '.' as a character to denote namespace delineation we should  
> also add this to the list of separators, incl. 2616.

We could but I do not see why that would be necessary. The comma separates  
field values and the equal sign separate attribute name from attribute  
value. So from the parser's perspective only those two characters need be  
quoted. However, for consistency I thought it to be a good idea to include  
the full separator list from RFC2616. But you maybe have an example where  
the use of an unquoted '.' would confuse the parser?

I do however think we should add a policy on attribute names. Both valid  
characters etc but also the naming policy because the namespace is shared  
by all categories. This could perhaps go into the Extensions document we  
talked about.

regards, Ralf