FW: Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers is Candidate Recommendation (Call for Implementations)

From: chairs-request@w3.org On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
Sent: Monday, 22 November, 2004 8:58
To: W3C Advisory Committee
Cc: chairs@w3.org; Martin Dürst; Richard Ishida; Philippe Le Hégaret
Subject: Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers is Candidate Recommendation (Call for Implementations)


W3C is pleased to announce that Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource 
Identifiers is a W3C Candidate Recommendation. The approval and publication is in response 
to the request posted to the Chairs mailing list:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2004OctDec/0053.html

The disposition of Last Call comments is available starting at:

    http://www.w3.org/International/Group/2004/charmod1-lc/SortBySection#LC035

There were no formal objections for the part of the Last Call document covered by this 
publication.

Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the Internationalization 
Working Group's patent disclosure page in conformance with W3C policy:

     http://www.w3.org/International/2002/Disclosures


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Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers
W3C Candidate Recommendation - 22 November 2004
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    Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers

    W3C Candidate Recommendation - 22 November 2004

    This version:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-charmod-resid-20041122
    Last version:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-resid
    Previous version:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-charmod-20040225 (prior to document split)


    Abstract
    --------

    This Architectural Specification provides authors of specifications, software 
developers, and content developers with a common reference for the use of resource 
identifiers building on the Universal Character Set, defined jointly by the Unicode 
Standard and ISO/IEC 10646.

    For topics such as use of the terms character, encoding and string, a reference 
processing model, choice and identification of character encodings, character escaping, 
and string indexing, see Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals. For 
normalization and string identity matching, see Character Model for the World Wide Web 
1.0: Normalization.


    Status of This Document
    -----------------------

    This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. 
Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the 
latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index 
at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

    This document is a Candidate Recommendation of the W3C. This document has been 
produced by the W3C Internationalization Working Group (I18N WG, 
http://www.w3.org/International/Group/) (Members only), with the help of the 
Internationalization Interest Group, as part of the W3C Internationalization Activity. 
Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C 
Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other 
documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in 
progress.

    Section 3 of this document was formerly Section 7 of the Character Model for the World 
Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-charmod-20040225/) Last Call 
Working Draft published 25 February 2004. A more detailed change log is given in Appendix 
C, Changes.

    The I18N WG invites comments on this specification. Comments should be submitted by 
email to www-i18n-comments@w3.org (public archive at 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-i18n-comments/). Please send one email per comment 
where possible, otherwise number comments clearly.

    The WG is soliciting implementation reports on this specification and related 
technology. The WG  plans to submit this specification for consideration as a W3C Proposed 
Recommendation as soon as the following conditions are met: 1) The document 
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) is published as an RFC in IETF Proposed 
Standard status. 2) There is a test suite that tests the use of IRIs along at least the 
following axes: a) use of IRIs in several document formats; b) use of IRIs in several 
locations in the same document format; c) use of non-ASCII characters in different parts 
of an IRI (e.g. domain name part, path part); d) use of IRIs in documents with various 
widely used character encodings and with characters from various scripts; e) use of 
document-specific escapes in IRIs; f) use of IRIs with various URI schemes; g) setup of 
various servers for IRIs; h) the translation of IRIs into URIs. 3) For each of the 
abovementioned axes, there are at least two implementations passing the applicable tests. 
4) The WG has responded formally to all issues raised against this document. The WG is 
expecting that this will take at least until 15 January 2005, but possibly longer.

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