- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:56:17 -0800
- To: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Atom Syntax <atom-syntax@imc.org>, www-tag@w3.org, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:21, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote: > I cannot reconcile (2) and (5a) : > > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> 2) If a keyword contains a colon, the keyword must (for document >> conformance) be a valid IRI. > > http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0715-duerst-iri/slide2-0.html indicates > that http://www.w3.org/People/Dürst is valid IRI (which could > hence be a keyword), yet after (5a) > >> 5) Consumers who want to see the world as IRIs (not browsers but >> e.g. GRDDL extractors) run the following algorithm to convert a rel >> keyword to an IRI: >> a) Replace A-Z with a-z. > > this becomes http://www.w3.org/people/dürst, which is not > the same IRI at all ... Correct. So it follows that it's a really bad idea to mint IRI-looking rel keywords that contain letters A-Z. This is a bit inelegant but the legacy is constraining us here. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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