Re: Error handling in URIs

Ian Hickson scripsit:

> I think that the confusion of introducing a new term would be greater than 
> the confusion of reusing URL. People intuitively know what a "URL" 
> basically is, and they know what an "address" is. They don't know what an 
> "HRI" is and I think that would work against the readability of the spec. 
> (This is especially important for this particular term since it appears 
> all over the place in HTML5.)

Fair enough.  Use "HTML URL" a few times, then, particularly in the
context of the definition of validity.  The RFC doesn't own "URL" any
more than it owns "valid".

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