Why Uniform Early Normalization

• Needed for "be conservative in what you send"
• Only solution to deal with opaque data
• Not all parts of the WWW may reasonably be expected to do normalization (small devices,...)
• Less need for software updates to address forward-compatibility issues
• More efficient implementations for string indexing (see below)
• Increasingly difficult to hide implementation details anyway

Problem: Early normalization has to be uniform across the WWW. This requires aditional specifications.