Re: Proposed resolution of HRRI/IRI discussion

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Martin Duerst writes:

> I think one additional argument for not including '[' and ']'
> in escaping when going from Legacy Extended IRIs to IRIs is
> that for all the other characters, this can be done independent
> of syntax details, but for '[' and ']', it would have to be
> done in a context-dependent manner, because clearly these
> characters must not be escaped when they serve as delimiters
> for IPv6 addresses.

I agree.  I do not think we should change the status of [ and ], and I
think that is close to the consensus position of the Core WG.

ht
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