- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:02:42 +0100
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: public-iri@w3.org
On 19 Mar 2009, at 18:49, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Mar 19, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Thomas Roessler wrote: >> A quick search in various archives suggests that the genesis of the >> UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag in 3987 relates to what is now section 3.2.2 >> of RFC 3986 (at the time, section 3.2.2 of RFC 2396): >> >> http://www.imc.org/idn/mail-archive/msg07277.html >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2 > > 3986 says: [...] >> Interestingly, following through on the references from there >> effectively brings us to the name production in appendix B of RFC >> 952, > > No, it doesn't. Those two paragraphs say that the syntax is not > limited to DNS. The ABNF says that the syntax is not limited to DNS. Excellent. That means that the only rationale for UseSTD3ASCIIRules in IRI dereferencing that I could find doesn't actually hold. Thanks for clarifying!
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