- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:12:34 -0800
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
I've heard the discussion about the inclusion of spaces in IRIs when they are not allowed in URIs, and I'm swayed by the argument that IRIs should only address the internationalization issue. That is, URIs and IRIs should not differ on where and when spaces are allowed. The only difference should be in non-ASCII characters. This makes the relationship between IRIs and URIs simpler. Perhaps there is some update in the URI draft (draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-00.txt) that should talk about the use of interior spaces, but I don't thinkt he two documents should differ. Secondly, note that the RFC 2396 update will also update the BNF for URIs, and the IRI draft should follow. I think that it would be a shame to issue the IRI RFC and then soon after issue a revised URI RFC with a different BNF. So I think the solution to this is to remove the BNF from section 2.2 of the IRI draft. (It was a good idea at the time, but the timing is now wrong). Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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