Re: ISSUE-103: substantive issue that requires opinion + discussion

Ivan Herman wrote:
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> Shane McCarron wrote:
>> Actually, I think it is a huge deal and buys us nothing.  The CURIE 
>> spec is in last call, and we cannot diverge from that.  We have no 
>> such comment against the CURIE spec.  If we did, I am confident we 
>> would reject it because, as we all agree, a CURIE is not a new URI 
>> mechanism.  CURIEs are never used over the wire, so they do not need 
>> to have their own scheme.  As to future-proofing.... it is already 
>> future proof.  The only situation where a bracket will ever be a 
>> legal character in a URI is in the hostname portion (for IPv6 
>> addresses).  And a hostname cannot 
>
> Really? Just out of a technical curiosity: how would that look in 
> IPv6? I did not know that...
http://[2002:ac20:ad::ac20:ad]/whatever for my laptop, for example...
http://[::1]/whatever for loopback interface
>
> But, regardless, you answered my only pending question in my original 
> response, so I would agree we should not make this change and give a 
> proper answer to Jonathan.
>
Okay

> Ivan
>
>> be there without a scheme... so there cannot ever be a conflict.  I 
>> do not think this is anything we need to worry about.  We have bigger 
>> fish to fry.
>>
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Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:28:34 UTC