RE: editing the IRI spec

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 07:41 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
[...]
> I would much rather we update the URI spec to combine the URI rules, the 
> IRI rules, and the rules from Dan's document so that we have a single spec 
> that both defines the allowed syntax, and the processing for all input 
> strings, in a manner that is compatible with today's tools (networking 
> libraries, command-line tools, browsers, e-mail clients, etc).
> 
> Doing this should be relatively simple (there's no design work and no 
> decisions to make, it's all a matter of integrating the existing rules and 
> checking that they match existing software and fixing them where they 
> don't). We just need a volunteer to edit the spec (Dan?), and agreement 
> that this is the right thing to do.

I'm sort of volunteering... my tiny brain swapped in some of the
details to get to the draft that I have, but I really need to
dump what I know (and what I'm hearing from Anne and Erik and others)
into a test repository before I can really be comfortable editing
more.

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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