- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:52:09 -0700
- To: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
- Cc: "'Mike Brown'" <mike@skew.org>, uri@w3.org
Please keep in mind that the URI technology predates UTF-8 by at least 5 years, and the IETF policies on identifying charset in use are even later than that. As such, they do not apply. We are way beyond the design phase. The hardest part of editing a spec towards standard status is recognizing what can be tweaked without breaking all of the deployed implementations that justify it being a standard. New ideas need to be proposed as separate specifications and deployed to the point where they attain equal status with the standard. That doesn't mean change is impossible -- it is simply slow and not always correct (some of the changes I made for RFC 2396 simply did not work out in practice and were not universally deployed). ....Roy BTW, I have 56 stored requests for changes to the next draft, so please accept my apologies if I don't respond to all of the commentary. I read them all, but suggestions that include text get first dibs because they are simply easier to enact or respond to directly.
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