Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-netboot-05

[Thomas Huth <THUTH at de.ibm.com>]

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon at nominum.com> wrote on 06/10/2009 22:53:38:
>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Thomas Narten wrote:
> > URLs are in ascii... is this state of the art? or should they be in
> > UTF-8?
>
> Yes, they should be UTF-8.

Sorry, but if I've got RFC 3986 right, URIs should be encoded with US-ASCII
(and special characters should be specified with the percent-encoding) ?

> > Huh? this makes no sense and is unenforceable. Remove as not
> > necessary? (indeed, there would be nothing wrong with a URL that
> > mapped to an IPv4 server if that worked...)
>
> That makes sense.

Ok.>

> > Shouldn't the parameters be UTF-8? (US-ASCII is a proper subset, but
> > this would allow other scripts/languages.)
>
> Yes.

Ok, agreed, for the parameters, UTF-8 might be a good idea (since there is
no percent-encoding as with the URLs).


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