Trying to redefine "URI" as the "same" protocol element leads to insanity, since there's no versioning. The only way of cutting the knot (after several years of discussion) was to be clear that an "IRI" was a different protocol element as a "URI". IRI would recycle us at Proposed. I'm opposed to including IRI in the URI draft if we're trying to move URI to Standard. The IRI draft still has several unresolved issues, which I hope can be resolved quickly. They may be obscure, but still can't be left open, e.g., RTL languages in IRIs: if they're allowed, what is the bidi algorithm to be used in rendering them?Received on Wednesday, 1 May 2002 16:28:58 GMT
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