Re: are many URIs ultimately relative? was RE: are 'cid' URLs relative?

Jonathan Borden wrote:

> The point being that many commonly used URI schemes in fact employ context
> information for resource resolution and are in this sense relative.

True but irrelevant.  "Absolute" does not mean "independent of context"
when applied to URI references.

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