RE: [wsrp] [CR314] - Change URI to IRI

I think you need to define what a compatibility issue is for 2.0 for me, then.

A 2.0 producer will not be able to work with a 1.0 consumer since there are places were the producer defines a URI and sends it to the consumer.

A 2.0 consumer will not be able to work with a 1.0 producer since there are places were the consumer defines a URI and sends it to the producer.

(To be more exact, they will be able to work, but the 2.0 code will need special case management to ensure it is creating URI when working with 1.0 counterparts, to me that is a compatibility issue worth mentioning, but not a show stopper.)

I agree that the main question is timing, but I would suggest that it is not before major code libraries support IRIs. As far as I know it is not supported currently (for example in Java 5.0 - the URI class does not support RFC 3987, and there is no IRI class).

I would also speculate (as someone from a non URI-compatible-language country) that the use cases where IRIs are really important (GET parameters), are not really relevant for WSRP.

Yossi.

From: Rich Thompson [mailto:richt2@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:52 PM
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Subject: RE: [wsrp] [CR314] - Change URI to IRI

Since an IRI is a superset of URI and we would be introducing the change for v2, this is an extension much like all of the other changes we have made.

The key question is whether we should be recognizing this recent change in the core standards underlying the Internet in v2 or wait until v3. My preference would be doing it in v2.

Rich

"Yossi Tamari" <yossi@giloventures.com>

04/05/05 04:39 PM

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Isn’t this a compatibility issue, since IRI allows characters that were not allowed in a URI?

Yossi.

From: Rich Thompson [mailto:richt2@us.ibm.com]
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Subject: [wsrp] [CR314] - Change URI to IRI

Document: Specification
Requested by: Rich Thompson
Old Text: URI
New Text: IRI

Compatibility Issues: None

Reasoning: Reflect approval of RFC 3987 which internationalized resource identifiers and superseded RFC 2396.

Errata item: no

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