At 2:42 PM +0200 8/4/05, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Tim Bray wrote:
"Implementors are advised that there is a common class of error in
[...]
Sorry but this is ridiculous; if we say X MUST Y even though we know
that many X won't Y we are abusing RFC 2119 terminology and make it
much more difficult to evangelize 100% compliance, since this allows
people to argue that compliance with this particular requirement is
not relevant in practise so they can worry less about compliance in
general.
You can't compare an IRI with a non-IRI. So, if you are handed an
non-IRI (as in, an IRI-looking string that has whitespace around it),
should you fail immediately or try harder? I propose trying harder,
but I am open to "just fail".
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
