On Wednesday, 28 November 2007, at 20:08:10 (-0500),
Jeff Johnson wrote:

> Unfortunately there are no case insensitive digests that I'm aware
> of.  One chooses a canonical representation, converts from whatever,
> then computes a digest.

Okay, I didn't realize a digest was involved.

> Sure on input case insensitivity will be arranged. But i need a
> canonical form defined to compute the tag number to be associated
> with an arbitrary tag, and that canonical form will likely be used
> as output display as well.

Given the choice between "use the supplied representation"
vs. "enforce a standard representation," I tend to lean toward the
former, which means case sensitive.  I didn't previously understand
that they were mutually exclusive due to the need to apply the digest
algorithm.

Michael

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