Re: Last Call comments on IRI - 3.1 Mapping of IRIs to URIs

On Thursday, September 16, 2004, 8:11:41 AM, Martin wrote:

MD> Hello Chris,

MD> I haven't heard from you on which way you would prefer to address
MD> the issue you brought up.


Sorry, I was in Japan for a couple of weeks (but you were not!) and it
was in my back mail.

MD>  I have decided to address it by adding
MD> "(see Section 5.3 for details)", so that Variant C) now reads:

 >>>>>>>>>
MD> Variant C) If the IRI is in an Unicode-based character encoding
MD>     (for example UTF-8 or UTF-16): Do not normalize (see Section
MD>     5.3 for details).  Apply Step 2 directly to the encoded Unicode
MD>     character sequence.
 >>>>>>>>>

That wording is great and deals with the issue I raised very well. Its
much clearer now.

MD> I'm moving this issue to 'tentatively closed', and plan to move
MD> it to 'closed' very soon.


I am happy with that decision.

Incidentally I did read the entire specification once more, and this was
the only issue that I found with it. In general I am very pleased with
the IRI specification, it meets a real need and I am happy to see it
progress.


MD>  If you don't agree with how I have
MD> addressed the issue, please reply asap, with actual text.

MD> Regards,    Martin.


MD> At 14:50 04/08/18 +0900, Martin Duerst wrote:

>>Hello Chris,
>>
>>Many thanks for your comment. I have made it issue why-not-normalize-42
>>(see http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit#why-not-normalize-42).
>>
>>A few ideas on how to deal with it below.
>>
>>At 22:22 04/08/11 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
>>
>>>Hello ,
>>>
>>> > If the IRI is in an Unicode-based character encoding (for example
>>> > UTF-8 or UTF-16): Do not normalize. Apply Step 2 directly to the
>>> > encoded Unicode character sequence.
>>>
>>>I believe that I understand why this step says 'do not normalize'
>>>(otherwise, certain Unicode strings couldnever be used in query parts,
>>>for example).
>>>
>>>However, as the two preceding steps say 'normalize' and this step says
>>>'do not normalize' the reader could be confused - or perhaps consider it
>>>an 'obvious error'.
>>>
>>>Do not tease the reader like this. Please explain *why* at this stage no
>>>normalization is performed.
>>
>>You definitely have a point. But as you have noticed, the explanations
>>are already given elsewhere in the document. I think there are several
>>things that can be done:
>>
>>- capitalize 'NOT', to make clear that this is not an 'obvious error'.
>>- add a pointer to 5.3 Normalization
>> 
>>(http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri.html#normaliza
>>(http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri.html#normalization)
>>- do both of the above
>>
>>Which one do you prefer? Do you think this is enough, or do you have
>>some other idea (actual wording preferred)?
>>
>>
>>Regards,    Martin.




-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group

Received on Friday, 17 September 2004 09:24:05 UTC