Re: Fwd: Re: HRRIs, IRIs, etc

> You should simply drop this effort and use IRI References instead. There
> is a high cost associated with yet another notion of resource identifier
> technology

This is not another notion of resource identifier.  It is the existing
notion used for XML system identifier, XLink href, and several other
things.  We are merely providing a name and a single place for a
definition that already exists in multiple specs.

> Simply prohibit anything but IRI references and,
> if necessary, specify "utf-8-percent-escape all disallowed characters"
> as error recovery method.

That would constitute a normative change to several specs.

-- Richard

Received on Wednesday, 20 June 2007 15:59:32 UTC