3987bis: "origin"

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While reviewing 3987bis for i18n terminology, I came across this
paragraph (Section 3.5):

   For compatibility with existing deployed HTTP infrastructure, the
   following special case applies for schemes "http" and "https" and
   IRIs whose origin has a document charset other than one which is UCS-
   based (e.g., UTF-8 or UTF-16).  In such a case, the "query" component
   of an IRI is mapped into a URI by using the document charset rather
   than UTF-8 as the binary representation before pct-encoding.  This
   mapping is not applied for any other scheme or component.

The term 'origin' could be ambiguous here. It doesn't seem to be
referencing the Web Origin Concept (RFC 6454) but instead seems to be
based on the "document" (broadly construed) in which the http or https
URL is found (e.g., as a hyperlink in an HTML document or perhaps as
running text in an email message). It would be good to make that clear.
One way to remove the ambiguity would be to change "origin" here to
something else, but even then I think we'd need additional text. I
tentatively propose the following:

   For compatibility with existing deployed HTTP infrastructure, the
   following special case applies for the schemes "http" and "https"
   when an IRI is found in a document whose charset is not based on UCS
   (e.g., not UTF-8 or UTF-16).  In such a case, the "query" component
   of an IRI is mapped into a URI by using the document charset rather
   than UTF-8 as the binary representation before pct-encoding.  This
   mapping is not applied for any other scheme or component.

Martin/Larry, shall I create a ticket for this? Does my proposed text
seem acceptable?

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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Received on Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:49:49 UTC