Re: [urn] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-hakala-urn-nbn-rfc3188bis-01: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 02:45:03PM -0500, Adam Roach wrote:
> On 6/8/18 1:01 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > ...
> > Indeed. Similarly, I had started writing a longer note yesterday,
> > pointing out that much of this is already covered in:
> >
> > 1. RFC 3986 (esp. Section 1.2.1, which doesn't say how "to use a wider
> > range of characters" nor does it "specify the character encoding used to
> > map those characters to octets prior to being percent-encoded for the URI")
> >
> > 2. RFC 8141 (esp. Section 2.2, which specifies a character encoding of
> > UTF-8 but doesn't say how to process "those characters" before UTF-8
> > encoding).
> >
> > My reading of Adam's and Ben's messages is that they'd like a more
> > detailed specification of the last-mentioned item, or at least bring the
> > matter to the attention of anyone brave or foolhardy enough to use
> > "those characters" in NBNs.
> 
> What I have in mind is more the second thing than the first. As John 
> pointed out, what libraries want to do may vary from country to country. 
> I just want text that warns that there's a gun here and that they should 
> take care to aim it away from their own foot.

I think that's what I had in mind as well (to the extent that I had
anything at all in mind when I balloted -- I don't want to claim to
be an expert in this space).

-Benjamin