RE: URI versus URI Reference

I think I have a different idea...

When we update RFC 2396, I suggest we add an introductory paragraph
explaining that the term "URI" is used ambiguiously in the community
to mean "a URI reference" (corresponding to the URI-reference BNF entity)
or "an absolute URI", and that for this reason, the term "URI" itself
is not defined in the document.

I'd probably fix the Abstract correspondingly, e.g.,
"Informally, a Uniform Resource Identifier is a compact string...."

so that people don't think that the abstract is normative.

Getting RFC 2396 out was enormously difficult; I originally had the idea
that
the revision should combine 1738 and 1808, but in retrospect, it's just
led to a lot of trouble.


Larry
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