[spec] IRIs, IDNs, and all that international jazz

[bie]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:21:38PM +0100, Petite Abeille wrote:
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> > On Dec 22, 2020, at 23:18, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
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> >  3. Clients and servers take the hit (both have to support URL and IRI)
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> This being a very equalitarian commune, I say this sounds fair: everybody "take the hit" for the greater good. 

Everyone who stays takes the hit, that is.

My "threshold" for complexity is "can I write a conforming, relatively
strict and safe server only relying on the OpenBSD base system". It's
kind of arbitrary, sure, but what isn't.

Mandatory IRI support (and there's no real way to keep it optional,
considering queries) would push the implementation complexity a step too
far for me.

bie