recommending URIs, A-labels and LDH-labels in HTML

[Erik van der Poel]

On Jan 31, 2008 12:53 PM, John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote:
> (2) You should push, where possible, for URIs and IRIs in the
> documents you are indexing to contain final-form names (A-labels
> or U-labels).  There really should be very little requirement,
> going forward, for URIs or IRIs to contain putative labels that
> require mapping (quite independent of what is displayed to the
> user).   You might even encourage the use of URIs and A-labels
> rather than IRIs and U-labels so as to eliminate the need to do
> IRI-> URI mapping and IDN processing entirely.   Note that this
> is about education, since you can't compel any of this behavior.

Yes, we could do something like that in our Webmaster Help Center.
Actually, one reason we would give for using URIs and A-labels (and
LDH-labels) is that IE 6 does not support IDNA and there are still a
lot of IE 6 users.

Erik