Re: grammar weirdness

Yes, the grammar issue was noted by Ray Merkert on Feb 17th.

> Perhaps the following text is appropriate.
>
> "An ABNF-driven parser will find that the border between
> authority and path is ambiguous; they are disambiguated by the
> "first-match-wins" (a.k.a. "greedy") algorithm.  This produces
> correct results whenever the authority is absent or the first
> segment of the path is empty.   Although the grammar permits
> a nonempty path in the presence of an authority component,
> the URI is considered ill-formed in this case."

Note that the text already says a more forceful equivalent
in section 3.3:

                                              If a URI contains an
    authority component, then the initial path segment must be empty
    (i.e., the path must begin with a slash ("/") character or be
    entirely empty).

Is that not sufficient?

....Roy