IRI: Recent Developments

URI BOF at 56th IETF in San Francisco
Creation of dedicated discussion list: public-iri@w3.org (subscribe, public archive)

Removal of space, {, }, <, >,... from IRI syntax
Special case for domain names: direct conversion to punycode (coordination with update of RFC 2396)
IRI equivalence (e.g. for XML namespace names)