--On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:04 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre -
Filament <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/21/17 10:40 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>> How would you
>> feel about making the phrase something closer to "the basic
>> Latin repertoire, i.e., the letters and digits of ASCII as
>> described above" and moving the RFC 20 citation to the first
>> use of "ASCII" in that previous paragraph?
>
> OLD
>
> In order to make URNs as stable and persistent as possible
> when protocols evolve and the environment around them
> changes, URN namespaces SHOULD NOT allow characters outside
> the basic Latin repertoire [RFC20] unless the nature of the
> particular URN namespace makes such characters necessary.
>
> NEW
>
> In order to make URNs as stable and persistent as possible
> when protocols evolve and the environment around them
> changes, URN namespaces SHOULD NOT allow non-ASCII
> characters [RFC6365] unless the nature of the particular
> URN namespace makes such characters necessary.
>
> The term "non-ASCII" is defined in RFC 6365 and seems perfectly
> appropriate here.
Wfm. Tom?
john