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Subject: RE: [codelist] Fwd: Re: Impact of changing a specification from URI to IRI and XRI
The only danger I know of in using non-ASCII characters is if any harm can be caused by someone maliciously (or otherwise) replacing an ASCII character with a similar-looking non-ASCII character. This is the basis of many phishing attacks. I don't really see how that affects us, but then I also don't see how allowing non-ASCII characters helps us significantly either. Do we really need our identifiers to be that multi-lingual? Regards Paul Spencer > -----Original Message----- > From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com] > Sent: 30 November 2006 22:52 > To: Code List Representation TC > Subject: [codelist] Fwd: Re: Impact of changing a specification from URI > to IRI and XRI > > > Fellow CLRTC members, > > I've asked someone I highly respect regarding markup and the Internet > about any impact we have of changing our use of URI strings. > > He can only comment on the use of IRI strings and from what I see > there is no impact for us to simply say a string is an IRI wherever > we say it is a URI. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI states there is some disagreement > regarding the problems being addressed by XRI strings. Perhaps we > should wait to say anything about XRI until it is more widely accepted. > > . . . . . . . . . . Ken > > >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:23:58 +0900 > >From: "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp> > >To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> > >Subject: Re: Impact of changing a specification from URI to IRI and XRI > >Cc: MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp> > >... > >Historically, it was not clear whether URIs allow non-ASCII characters. > >But not it is clear. URIs disallow non-ASCII charcters, while IRIs > >allow them. More about this, see RFC 3987 and RFC 3986. > > > >The datatype xsd:anyURI allows IRIs, however. So, we can safely > >use this datatype for allowing non-ASCII characters. > > > -- > World-wide corporate, govt. & user group XML, XSL and UBL training > G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com > Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/ > Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) > Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/bc > Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal >
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