I support making this a Proposed Standard. It fills in a very usable way a long-standing gap in the semantics of fragment identifiers, and makes it possible to refer to frozen text/plain documents and makes it possible to refer to portions of frozen text/plain documents (for example, sections of RFCs) in a machine-understandable fashion. I would add one sentence to explain that length is indeed used as a weak but cheaply calculated hash function, thus justifying its grouping with MD5. -- John Cowan cowan@xxxxxxxx http://www.ccil.org/~cowan C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit" _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf