At 08:47 02/03/27 +0100, Dan Oscarsson wrote:

>It is important that existing RFCs like the one for the URL, imediately
>be
>updated to allow non-ASCII letters. And do not use the IETF hacker
>language
>and call it IRI, for the common man it will be a URL and URI.

You are referring to
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-08.txt
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI).

As a co-author, I have to tell you that the draft became quite
a bit easier to write and read when introducing the distinction
between URIs and IRIs. And I expect the same benefit for other
specifications that reference this work. So I wouldn't want
to change back to the terminology used in earlier drafts.

However, I agree with you that in common use, people will most
probably call everything an URI or URL, and that should work
out fine.

Regards,    Martin.

#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, I18N Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
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