Fwd: RE: IRIs [was: [Minutes] 17 Mar 2003 TAG teleconf...]

At the IETF URI BOF, there was some discussion of problems caused by 
allowing additional characters in IRIs...   here are a couple of examples I 
spotted mention of elsewhere.

(I'm not subscribed to public-iri, so my apologies if this has already been 
noted there.)

#g
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>From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>To: <www-tag@w3.org>
>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:18:33 +0100
>Subject: RE: IRIs [was: [Minutes] 17 Mar 2003 TAG teleconf...]
>
>
> > From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> > Chris Lilley
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:52 PM
> > To: Dan Connolly
> > Cc: Henry S. Thompson; Paul Grosso; www-tag@w3.org
> > Subject: Re: IRIs [was: [Minutes] 17 Mar 2003 TAG teleconf...]
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Yes. Which does not rule out making the specs as close as possible to
> > where we think they will ultimately end up.
>
>I'll take that as an opportunity that XMLNS 1.1's definition of IRIs include
>
>- the space character (breaking XML schema's schemaLocation attribute) and
>- "{" and "}" (breaking the current popular practice to use ("{" + ns + "}"
>+ localname) to build unique identifiers from XML element names (JAXP API).
>
>(and now I'll try to shut up :-)
>
>Julian
>
>
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