Re: issue idnuri-02: New approach, new text

* Martin Duerst wrote:
>Issue http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit#idnuri-02 is about
>whether to use %-escaping or punycode to map the domain name part
>of an IRI to an URI. This was discussed at the IETF in San Francisco,
>and the general tendency there seemed to be towards using punycode.

The hostname production rule in RFC 2396 (as updated by RFC 2732)
does not allow %-escaping, using %-escaping for URI conversion is
thus not an option, so why was this at all subject to discussion?

Received on Monday, 28 April 2003 23:23:58 UTC