Following up on the tech call's discussion on IRI's and URI I did a bit of homework.
TL;DR - no issues in changing the SPDX documentation from URI to IRI - compatible with 2.2 and has some advantages Additional information: I found this article to be a good overview of the differences and their relevance to linked data specifications: https://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/fusion/blog/2016/11/18/iri-uri-url-urn-and-the ir-differences/ In summary, all URI's are IRI's, so 2.2 documents would be compatible unchanged. I also noticed the in the XML Schema 2 section 3.3.17 <https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#anyURI> defines xsd:anyURI as "anyURI represents an Internationalized Resource Identifier Reference (IRI). An anyURI value can be absolute or relative, and may have an optional fragment identifier (i.e., it may be an IRI Reference). This type should be used when the value fulfills the role of an IRI, as defined in [RFC 3987] or its successor(s) in the IETF Standards Track." I don't recall any discussion in past SPDX meetings on restricting international characters in URI's. In fact, we have always adopted standards which support international character sets in SPDX documents (e.g. UTF-8 encoding requirement). Based on this homework, changing from URI to IRI should not have any material impact on the SPDX document production or consumption. It has the advantage of being consistent with RDF and other linked data specifications. The only downside I can think of is there are still references to URI in the XSD datatypes which may be confusing - but as pointed out above, the definition of anyURI includes IRI's. Those of you more expert in IRI's, let me know if I missed anything. Gary ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: <mailto:g...@sourceauditor.com> g...@sourceauditor.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this information. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4163): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-tech/message/4163 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/84976416/21656 Group Owner: spdx-tech+ow...@lists.spdx.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-tech/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
