WCAG 2.0 Comment Submission

Name: Christophe Strobbe
Email: christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be
Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - DocArch
Document: W2
Item Number: conformance-claims
Part of Item: 
Comment Type: general comment
Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
If a conformance claim is made for http://example.com/, does this include subdomains like http://www.example.com/, http://lists.example.com/ and http://cvs.example.com/?

I would assume that they are all covered, unless some of them are explicitly excluded. This approach would be in line with RDF Content Labels [http://www.w3.org/2004/12/q/doc/content-labels-schema.htm] and URI Pattern Matching by the Web Content Labels Incubator Group [http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/matching.html].

Proposed Change:
Add the following to item 6 of \"Required components of a conformance claim\":

\"If only the URI of a host (e.g. http://example.com) is given without specifying subdomains, all subdomains (e.g. http://www.example.com/ and http://lists.example.com) are assumed to be covered, unless some subdomains are explicitly excluded.\"

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:01:12 UTC