Re: Proposed charter for URL WG

On 26 Feb 1997, Rich Petke wrote:

> Here is the first cut at a charter for the URL Process & Guidelines working
> group.

Great work!


> Description of Working Group
> 
> This working group exists for the purpose of creating one document:  A
> guideline for the creators of new URL schemes.  The purpose of this
>  guideline is to help ensure that new URL schemes:
> 
>   - Consistently implement the general syntax of URLs as specified in
>     RFC 1738.
>   - Are compatible with relative URLs as specified in RFC 1802.
>   - Are compatible with existing URL schemes.
>   - Address I18N issues.

Very good to have this. 


>   - Have clearly specified character encoding rules.

This may be too strict. If we take http or ftp *just as an example*,
http doesn't have any clearly specified character encoding rules,
and ftp is just starting to move towards getting better in this
respect. I would suggest that we combine the two points above
to something like:

- Address I18N issues, in particular character encoding rules.


Regards,	Martin.