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Subject: Re: [office] Proposed change to Monday's agenda (IRI's versus URI's)
+1 to adding this issue to next Monday's agenda.
Patrick
Nathaniel S Borenstein wrote:
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> Robert
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> [office] Proposed change to
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>I've been handed some unofficial feedback from the Japanese standards body,
>indirectly forwarded to me via IBM's Japanese subsidiary. It appears that
>ODF's use of URI's rather than the new unicode IRI's (
>http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-and-ident.html) has been received
>poorly, and may result in an unfavorable ISO vote from Japan.
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>They are also questioning ODF's use of CSS3 and DOM level 3 events, since
>neither were formally adopted by the W3C. The suggestion was to define
>necessary portions of these specs in the ODF spec, rather than by
>reference. (IMHO, this seems like more of an editorial comment than a
>technical one.)
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>I'm asking that we agree to take on this issue on Monday's call as a
>priority issue. The next meeting of their standards group will be before
>the end of the month, so there is some urgency for the TC to state if and
>how they will address this issue before then, which could turn around their
>vote.
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>I'm no expert in this area, but it seems a possible fix would be to allow
>an IRI every place in the spec where a URI is currently specified. Would
>this cause any other issues in the specification? Any implementation
>issues?
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>The tricky part might be where we reference an external specification which
>has not been updated to allow IRI's. (SVG? SMIL?). If there is any data
>which is essentially shared between legacy URI-based standards and newer
>IRI-aware standards, then we'll need to be careful how they interface.
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>Do we agree that this IRI issue is a legitimate concern with ODF documents
>in Japan (and potentially China, Korea, etc.)?
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>Can I get some +1's for adding this to the agenda for Monday?
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>-Rob
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Patrick Durusau
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Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
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