- From: Leslie Daigle <leslie@Bunyip.Com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Tripp Lilley <tlilley@perspex.com>
- cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>, Jon Davis <jdavis@inetinit.org>, ietf@ietf.org, URI distribution list <uri@Bunyip.Com>
Howdy,
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Tripp Lilley wrote:
> Subject: Mailing List for iDNR (was RE: iDNR, an alternative name resolution , protocol)B
>
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Larry Masinter wrote:
>
> > I suggest 'uri@bunyip.com' as the mailing list most appropriate for
> > this discussion.
>
> If we're just discussing alternate URI schemes, then I agree. However, I
> think we're getting into far more than that. Is there already a list for
I think the uri@bunyip.com mailing list is a suitable place for discussing
the document Larry has proposed, insofar as it does deal specifically
with handling i18n in URI.
However, the document does touch on issues of handling non-ascii characters
(specifically, matching, transitioning between 7-bit and 8-bit systems)
that are clearly more general than URI. If there is to be a serious
discussion of THOSE issues in the broader context, a new discussion forum
(or an existing one, more appropriate than uri@bunyip.com) would be excellent.
I can see the need for an IETF-standard way of handling things like
relaxed character-matching (e.g., case-insensitivity, in 7-bit world),
because we are at the point where different protocols are going to take
different approaches (== mess). In my opinion, even with my limited
understanding of the issues, this will have to be an engineering compromise
solution, because I don't know if there is a globally-acceptable
answer to:
should é match E in a case-insensitive-style match
(Hint: ask a native French speaker from Québec, and ask one from France).
Leslie.
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