RE: [Uri-review] [hybi] ws: and wss: schemes

URI restrictions are not an anachronism.  Imagine an Englishman with no
knowledge of Japanese and no pocket translator to access a resource under a
Japanese IRI that he has printed on paper.  Good luck with that.
Best regards,
Chris

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Subject: Re: [Uri-review] [hybi] ws: and wss: schemes

> I've found that confusion tends to surround when an IRI is 
> happily being an IRI and when it needs to be mapped down to a URI.

I'm still confused as to why we still have URIs at all. They're such an 
anachronism.

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