Re: [Anima] Adam Roach's Discuss on draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra-22: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

>     > I would personally not suggest using IRIs here, given that the scheme
>     > (https) is expected to retrieve a resource at a well-known location and
>     > thus will always have to be mapped to a URI to do the retrieval (rather
>     > than used in a string comparison or something similar) .  RFC 5280,
>     > which this cites, actually goes through the steps pretty well, and I
>     > think the complexity there demonstrates the advantage for constrained
>     > devices of always using the URI form.
>
> I have changed the references from IRI to URL, and the components from
> iauthority to 'authority'.

I think the best thing for IETF documents is to use "URI" (rather than
"URL"), and to cite RFC 3986.

The W3C, via the WHATWG, is (re-)defining "URL", and we *could* cite
that work.  That would not be my preference here.

Barry