- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:17:52 +0100
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Am Samstag, 08.03.03, um 01:09 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Tim Bray: > > Ref: http://www.apache.org/~fielding/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html > > I have read section 2 about 11 times and now have a persistent nagging > headache that just won't quit. I now approximately half the time am > convinced that I think that I understand what it's trying to say, but > I'd have a hard time justifying it with text from the RFC. > > It seems to me that the RFC defines - very clearly - the syntax of a > URI. However, the explanation of how those characters and escape > sequences might have got there is pretty well opaque to me. > > In explaining matters of character encoding, section 2.1 envisions > something sort of standing behind the URI, the phrase original > character is used (occasionally in quotes), as well as "original > character sequences" (not in quotes). So maybe there's a notion of an > "original URI" hiding behind the URI? "Shadow URI"? ;) There is also chapter 1.5 (Transcribability) which uses the term URI both for the thing on the side of a bus and a string conforming to the EBNF rules of the RFC. Also, the last sentence of 1.5 should probably also be removed since now 6.3 recommends UTF-8 usage. Regards, Stefan
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