- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:39:17 +0000
- To: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
- Cc: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, yaojk <yaojk@cnnic.cn>, "PUBLIC-IRI@W3.ORG" <public-iri@w3.org>, "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>, IDNA update work <idna-update@alvestrand.no>, "www-tag.w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:33 AM, John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com> wrote: > It might be relevant because Anne seems to quite often argue > that existing practice has to be preserved forever if that were > what happened. My main interest is indeed compatibility with deployed content and what's also very relevant here is http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html I think. Phasing out domain names goes very much counter to the notion of URL persistence. The sentiment in this thread that we can keep changing the rules also strikes me as bad. Going from IDNA2003 to UTS46 to just IDNA2008 to maybe something else in the future. The whole reason we set standards is stability. So you can build on top of a foundation you know will not change. We take this pretty seriously in most places. Not taking it seriously for something as fundamental as domain names strikes me as wrong. (There's a larger issue with ICANN just removing certain ccTLDs. If the Netherlands ever stops being an independent entity would ".nl" and the set of URLs related to "annevankesteren.nl" just disappear? This happened to several other countries and it makes me sad.) -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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