let not confuse the issues. There is no problem in introducing a Draft for information. This Draft should only be a about color code for displaying the URI when the U/IRI is displayed in a non unique color. It should only include an introduction to document the needs for a multicolored display, then the needs for a standardized colored code, then the considered colored parts of the URI: scheme, levels, etc. and the IANA consideration for the registration of the list of the colors. So the multicolored display is a MAY, but then the shade of the colors should be a MUST: this is one of the interest of multicolored display, that this is a cross application/browser standard.
When I talk of the W3C, this is because the first need is for the Web. But obviously everywhere an URI is displayed (mail agents, instant messaging, advertizing, word processors, etc. ) the color code should be the same.
jfc
On 02:18 25/02/2005, Erik van der Poel said:
Hi Jefsey,
Thanks for the support. Your idea about giving each level of the domain name a standard color is very interesting. I am reworking nameprep.org right now, and I'll probably include a section near the end about this. Note that just because this section is in the doc at nameprep.org does not mean that it would necessarily find its way into any Internet Draft, let alone a new RFC. If this section tries to mandate colors, it probably would not be in a normative (or MUST) part of an IETF RFC. It would end up in an informative appendix (or a MAY).
No, I don't think W3C is the right organization for this. IDNA has already been produced by the IETF, and domain name issues don't really belong at W3C, even though URIs are covered by some of their docs.
Mozilla has very different plans in this space. I have been unable to convince them of the need for tools/extensions. So far. :-)
Erik
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:Very, very good idea.
This could be a _standard_ way to print the domain name in the browser bar. A very simple way could just be to print every URL in the bar with a different color for each level. This does not change anything in any procedure and can be very easily tought and understood. If one standardizes the colors it may help customer support, advertizing, discussing, etc? permitting to speak of the "blue", "red", "green" part of a discussed URI. This would be far easier for lay people than to talk of first, second, etc. level - whatever the language.
I suggest you write a private Draft of this asap. Probably a single page enough. Mozilla could make it an immediate update if it would be an RFC on the standard track. This is would stop the developing campaign of concerns, with something which would be considered as positive.
Or, would this be for the W3C?
jfc
At 16:08 24/02/2005, Erik van der Poel wrote:
Here I agree with you. I'm not going to try to come up with the wording for that, but this morning I started to think that the right-to-left DNS and IDN spoofing problems *could* be addressed at the UI level by providing a *tool* that security-conscious users could *choose* to use.
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