Re: URL encoding in html page

--On Tuesday, 02 April, 2002 09:27 -0800 Dave Crocker
<dhc <at> dcrocker.net> wrote:

> At 10:57 AM 4/2/2002 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>> While the IETF does not design or standardize user interfaces,
>> it seems to me that discussion about user interfaces and what
>> functions they do, or do not, require is entirely appropriate.
>> If we specify a wire ("network interchange") standard that is
>> intended to provide some functionality, and that functionality
>> cannot be rationally implemented in a user interface,
> 
> The only problem is that this extended discussion is that it
> is not serving that purpose.
> 
> It is not assessing the UI issues correctly, it is confusing
> protocol issues with implementation issues, AND it is trying
> to specify UI designs.  None of which is constructive to an
> IETF working group effort.
> 
> Frankly, both of these problems are persistent in IDN.  We
> start with a topic that has a generic relevance to the work --
> although we often engage in that discussion far past the time
>...
> John, as you well know, IETF working group progress requires
> constantly enforcing the scope restrictions specified by the
> charter.  Ensuring forward progress often has more to do with
> limiting scope of discussion than with anything else.
> 
> Perhaps it is silly of me to worry about the difference
> between pleasant academic discussions, versus practical