Issue 5: (SOME_CHARS)

[Graham Klyne <GK@xxxxxxx>]

>Issue 5: (SOME_CHARS)
>
>The current draft restricts the characters allowed in URIs for
>feature tag registration (rather than following those in
>http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-fielding-uri-syntax-02.txt)
>TCN was changed to meet the restricted set--are there any other
>requirements for a full set of characters?  Current proposal is
>to leave the character set restricted.

I'm not sure I fully understand the rationale here.

The idea of restricting URI characters to fit some parsing scheme seems
rather ad-hoc to me.  I can imagine confusion arising because the
registration refers to "URI tree" but doesn't allow a fully generalized URI
format.

My approach would probably be to allow full URL character set, and define a
delimiting scheme so that they can be accommodated within other syntactic
frameworks.  But I don't wish to rake over old discussions and will go
along with restricted characters if that's generally felt to be OK.

#g

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Graham Klyne