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Re: [office] Proposed change to Monday's agenda (IRI's versus URI's)

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    Posted 01-20-2006 19:53
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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:
    
    >+1
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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?
    >
    >-Rob
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    Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
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