Re: [Fwd: ACTION-487 Assess potential impact of IRI draft on RDF/XML, OWL, and Turtle]

Ok. Then we should indeed refer to IRI-s (b.t.w., that is what SPARQL does, too) and we can rely on the fact that RDF will, eventually, catch up.

Ivan

On Oct 28, 2010, at 20:32 , Shane McCarron wrote:

> I don't think we can.  We define a datatype of CURIE.  Datatypes have value space and lexical space.  The TAG and others required us to define the range for both of those spaces, and the mapping between them.
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> On 10/28/2010 1:31 PM, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> Ok. Thanks.
>> 
>> One issue that the new a RDF WG will have to handle is to settle the URI/IRI issue. Thr charter is not yet public (but almost) but I can say that this is one of the entries on the charter. My feeling is that the curie-s in RDFa should refer to RDF and let then RDF sort this issue out. Let us keep away from this issue here.
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>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 20:03, Toby Inkster<tai@g5n.co.uk>  wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:23:51 +0200
>>> Ivan Herman<ivan@w3.org>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Guys, help me out please: what is the difference between 3986 and
>>>> 3987?
>>> RFC 3986 is URI; RFC 3987 is IRI. URIs are US-ASCII only; IRIs are
>>> Unicode and allow characters beyond U+007F in many places. Many
>>> protocols and formats are not Unicode aware, so the IRI RFC defines a
>>> mapping from IRIs to URIs. (A mapping in the reverse direction is
>>> unnecessary as all URIs are automatically IRIs.)
>>> 
>>> All things being equal, we probably want to use IRIs - they allow
>>> people to use non-Latin characters in identifiers which is likely to
>>> be a boon for RDFa's acceptability in cultures where the usual
>>> alphabets are not derived from the Latin alphabet (e.g. Chinese,
>>> Greek, Japanese, Thai, Iranian, etc).
>>> 
>>> The problem is that RDF itself uses URIs as it was defined prior to to
>>> existence of IRIs, so this would be an inconsistency between RDF and
>>> RDFa. However, this doesn't seem to have proved a practical problem for
>>> SPARQL which uses IRIs. We should get advice from TAG as they may be
>>> able to provide us with information on what direction RDF is likely to
>>> go (stick with URIs or switch to IRIs).
>>> 
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>>> 
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