Re: [iri] #69: Several issues in Introduction of 4395bis

On 6/7/12 1:36 AM, Ted Hardie wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
>> On 1/10/12 5:36 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> Section 1:
>>
>>    [RFC3987] introduced IRIs by defining a mapping between URIs
>>    and IRIs; [RFC3987bis] updates that definition, allowing an
>>    IRI to be interpreted directly without translating into a URI.
>>
>> I actually don't see RFC 3987 requiring an IRI to be translated to URI
>> under any circumstances. Current implementations of IRIs, under RFC
>> 3987, work perfectly without mapping any IRI to URI. So I think this
>> statement should be changed to:
> 
> I read this text as referring to the applicability section in RFC 3987
> (Section 1.2), which does explicitly say "The compatibility is
> provided by specifying a well-defined and deterministic mapping from
> the IRI character sequence to the functionally equivalent URI
> character sequence."  This goes back to our long-running "Presentation
> format/new protocol element type" discussion, in other words.
> 
> I'm not honestly sure that we need this history in the document at
> all.  "This document updates the definition of IRIs originally
> provided in RFC 3987" seems to sidestep the whole thing.

Works for me.

Peter

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