RE: Grinding to a halt on Issue 27.

> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Rick Jelliffe
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 3:55 PM
> To: www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Grinding to a halt on Issue 27.
>
> ...
>
> In [0a], Julian's posting [0b] is summarized as 'feedback that
> this "upgrade" is
> not without some cost'.  However, that is not what Julian said
> AFAICS. His comment
> is not anti-non-ASCII per se but concerned with namespace comparisons.
> I think this is gist of Rod Fieldings comments: he thinks that
> going all ASCII
> will solve things.
> ...

Rick,

that's correct. My concerns are/were:

- there is no clear mandate to change this in the XMLNS (!) 1.1 requirements
- it may break code, in particular if IRI allows some ASCII characters which
are commonly used as delimiters *between* namespace names (I assume that
this is going to be fixed)
- the benefit is unclear: if somebody really want's to *refer* to his
namespace using localized characters, he *can* do that. Just use the IRI,
and specify that the actual namespace name is the mapped URI (just like
you'll need to do the same transformation when for instance mapping a IRI to
an HTTP URL).

Julian

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