Last Call: URI and IRI Internet-Drafts

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has announced two Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing. The documents are coordinated IETF-W3C efforts.

• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax is written by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C), Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Larry Masinter (Adobe) with involvement of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Last Call ends 13 September. Simple text strings that refer to Internet resources, URIs may refer to documents, resources, to people, and indirectly to anything. URIs are a fundamental component of the Web. Read about the W3C URI Activity and visit the TAG home page.
• Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) is written by Martin Dürst (W3C) and Michel Suignard (Microsoft) with involvement of the W3C Internationalization Working Group. Lifting the limitation to a subset of US-ASCII previously allowed in Web addresses, IRIs allow characters in the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646). Last Call ends 8 September. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page.