Re: IRIs everywhere (including XML namespaces) from Rick Jelliffe on 2002-10-24 (www-tag@w3.org from October 2002)

From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@topologi.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:21:13 +1000
To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000301c27b3e$b376c790$4bc8a8c0@AlletteSystems.com>

Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> That said, I am worried that at least some existing parsers may not 
> be making the proper IRI-to-URI conversion. 

Then the answer is not to ban IRIs but to promote them.

Non-ASCII users have been badly treated by the ASCII-only "minimum literal"
approach, which perhaps ultimately stems from the DNS community's failure of 
interest in i18n.  

A lack of leadership to forcefully promote IRIs will leave non-ASCII users as 
second-class citizens.   People want to be able to write directly using their local 
writing  system, and for software and infrastructure to handle it.  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

Received on Thursday, 24 October 2002 05:21:37 UTC