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Re: revised "generic syntax" internet draft

"Ron Daniel, Jr." <rdaniel@lanl.gov> Wed, 16 April 1997 15:35 UTC

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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:54:29 -0600
To: Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>
From: "Ron Daniel, Jr." <rdaniel@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: revised "generic syntax" internet draft
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At 11:20 AM 4/16/97 +0100, Jon Knight wrote:
>IMHO the push for I18N should be in Uniform
>Resource *Names*, not URLs, so that the broken "put meaning in an address"
>paradigm isn't perpetuated even further than it currently is.

The URN-WG has a particular I18N position, but that is to allow
for the representation of things like Japanese bank account identifiers.
We are NOT trying to use I18N features in order to provide the short,
human-friendly, identifiers that many people would like to see.

Regards,



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