"minutes" from last two concalls

This email is being 
sent to communicate the important results of the last pair of conference calls 
held by the TC.

 

Neither of them were 
official TC meetings, and as such, they've been conducted with much less 
formalism than previous meetings. They have been largely used to communicate 
"current thinking" about several issues to interested TC members. 

 

Specifically, we 
discussed current thinking on the best approach to internationalization, 
including addressing the I18N issues raised by Nat Sakimura here and on the 
editors list. Also discussed was thinking on the approach to leveraging work 
being done on RFC2396bis (revised URI spec) and the IRI (internationalized 
resource identifiers) efforts. The issue there is the specifications in those 
working groups are not final, and thus are not citeable as normative documents. 

 

The approach that 
the editors have taken to address these issues is largely reflected in the text 
of the -07 draft. 

 

In yesterday's 
concall, Geoffrey Strongin raised a question about whether or not the editors 
group should deliver a writeup of the plans for the specification moving 
forward. One theme of such a written plan of intent would be addressing how we 
could "bring in" the IRI and revised URI spec as they are formally delivered as 
normative documents. Dave McAlpin, who has been the detail guy in the areas 
where these specs impact our work, believes that being able to normatively cite 
these external specs will make the XRI spec shorter and simpler. Currently, we 
are forced to "recreate" some of the abstractions and transformation processes 
described in these documents - by citing these underlying specs we don't have to 
recreate these processes in the XRI spec. 

 

Just a reminder, now 
is the time to dig into -07 and give feedback!

 

    -Gabe