- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:25:16 PDT
- To: "Leslie Daigle" <leslie@Bunyip.Com>
- Cc: "URI distribution list" <uri@Bunyip.Com>
> Software that interprets URIs as the names of local resources SHOULD
> accept multiple renditions of the URIs in the case where those
> resources names might have non-ASCII representations; this includes
> accepting both the URI syntax of section 2.1 and the 8URI form in
> section 2.2.
You're right, this is just too fuzzy to stay as is, and it combines
a couple of different pieces of advice.
a) For servers that currently accept 'native' encodings, continue
to do so.
b) In any case, accept both canonical UTF8 URIs and 8URIs
c) Consider carefully applying aliasing and fuzzy matching in order
to simplify the typin strategy.
(a) and (b) are a matter of accomodating both current and upgraded
software. (c) is not to accomodate software, but a matter of dealing
with users who might otherwise have trouble typing URLs.
> If there is not a well-known, algorithmically-applicable set of
> rules to achieve this set of "multiple renditions", this should not
> be suggested as a "SHOULD".
You're right. (a) and (b) can be SHOULD, (c) is a MAY.
Received on Tuesday, 1 September 1998 23:30:43 UTC