- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 17 Mar 2003 17:59:46 -0600
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 17:34, Paul Grosso wrote: [...] > > The XML Core WG has at least three specs going to PR within the month: > XML 1.1, Namespaces 1.1, and XInclude 1.0. On what we thought was > direction from the TAG, we put IRIs into all these specs. > > Now that it's been said that the TAG didn't tell us to put IRIs into > these specs, and given that having IRIs in these specs is causing > trouble, What sort of trouble? > what would be the effect of the XML Core WG's pulling IRIs > out of these three specs and just going back to URIs? Would that > force us to go back to Last Call? The only way to get that question answered for sure is to ask for PR status and get a Director's Decision that the spec hasn't had sufficiently wide review since the change to pull IRIs; i.e. that it needs another last call. (or, conversely, that it's OK to go to PR). I don't know, offhand, what the impact of taking IRIs out of XML 1.1 etc. is. I suspect you know more than I do. I'd expect to hear from the I18N on whether it's acceptable. Hmm... that starts to sound like another last call... hmm... > We have specs that, presumably, the W3C membership would like to see > become Recs, but it is unclear to me how to make that happen. It seems there are 2 general options: * wait for the specs you depend on to reach the relevant level of endorsement * accept the risk that, even though the IRI spec isn't endorsed/baked, it won't change that much after your spec goes out. Convince The Director and The Membership to likewise accept the risk in your request for PR. IRIEverywhere seems, to me, to be a complex issue that I have spent a long time studying without figuring out exactly what I think is the right answer. I don't believe there are any easy answers. I suspect the best/right thing to do is to try some things and see what hurts. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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