§2.1.3 IRI/URI Canonicalization does not address IRIs with IDNs

http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/Group/powder-grouping/20080128.html#canon
does not include IDN example or rules.

An example (working) IDN IRI:
  http://www.bravå.nu/
The IDN is punycoded when the IRI is expressed as a URI:
  http://www.xn--brav-toa.nu/

== homonyms ==
å can be written either Ue5 or 'a' + U30a (COMBINING RING ABOVE).
This results in a different punycoded IDN. Unicode gives *some*
c14n (or folding) rules, but not all, and they are not cheap to
implement.

== fixing ==
This should probably be addressed in an update of mnot's URISpace Note
  http://www.w3.org/TR/urispace

I recommend inserting in 2.1.3.3 Punycode (or maybe IDN) Conversion:

  • Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are converted from their
    punycode form to Unicode code points.

  Note: None of the normalization proceedures described in the Unicode
  specification are performed during POWDER IRI canonicalization.

== dissenting opinion ==
http://unicode.org/faq/normalization.html#2 suggests NFKC normalization
so perhaps you want POWDER apps to do that. You help the folks who hand-
enter a URL and happen to write it in a different form. I've never
implemented Unicode normalization, but I expect it's not trivial.

Happy trade-offs
-- 
-eric

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