Re: [EAI] Proposed resolution of List-* and downgrade- Issues

["Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:21:28 +0100, Frank Ellermann  
<hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles Lindsey wrote:

> But you are right - any serious 3987bis proposal has to
> fix this strange "MAY or SHOULD" to a simple "MUST" wrt
> DNS.  Nobody is going to register %-encoded raw UTF-8
> CNAMEs for all IDN A-labels.  Only the opposition might
> try that where it sees a potential profit.

Well draft-duerst-iri-bis-04.txt, published within the last day or so, has  
changed nothing in that area AFAICS.
> > IRIs are not currently allowed in the 'http' scheme
>
> Why do you think that http-IRIs are not allowed ?

Because it says so in RFC 3987, and still seems to say it in  
draft-duerst-iri-bis-04.txt.
> ...  My
> assumption is that all URI-schemes can be also used as
> IRI-schemes, in theory, down to 'mailto' as worst case.

Not unless the document defining the scheme says so, apparently.

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