Re: [SMIL3.0] Use IRIs instead of URIs ( LC-1825)

 Dear Martin Duerst ,

The SYMM Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the Last
Call Working Draft [2] of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL 3.0) published on 13 Jul 2007. Thank you for having taken the time to
review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at www-smil@w3.org if
you agree with it or not before 02 nov 2007. In case of disagreement, you
are requested to provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus
with the Working Group. If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will
be given the opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be
reviewed by the Director during the transition of this document to the
next stage in the W3C Recommendation Track.

Thanks,

For the SYMM Working Group,
Thierry Michel
W3C Staff Contact

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/6.0.0.20.2.20070831133252.09d6a8a0@localhost
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/


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Your comment on Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL
3.0)...:
> [this is not an official comment from the I18N Core WG,
> but I hope it becomes one]
> 
> At 05:17 07/08/31, ishida@w3.org wrote:
> 
> >Comment 10
> >At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0708-smil30/
> 
> SMIL 3.0 uses URIs in many places. These should all be replaced
> with IRIs (RFC 3987), to make sure that resources containing non-ASCII
> characters in their identifiers are correctly processed.
> 
> [The implementation effort for this is minimal assuming
> an implementation is based on Unicode, which it has to
> be anyway because SMIL is XML.]
> 
> Regards,    Martin.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp      
> mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp


Working Group Resolution (LC-1825):
The Working Group agrees that using IRIs instead of URIs is a good thing
and has resolved to adopt the proposal.

We will add a (normative) note that the term URI needs to be read as IRI
throughout the specification.


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Received on Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:52:43 UTC