Re: erratum: terminology about IRIs is (slightly) wrong in RDF specs

On 02/04/2021 15:39, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> (...)
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> Is it worth defining a piece of terminology e.g. "RDF Reference" to 
> collect the points together?
The whole URL → URI → IRI (→ URL) renaming dance has been confusing 
enough. I fear that coining yet another term might mostly add to the 
confusion.
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>     Andy
>
> On 31/03/2021 17:48, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> RDF specifications talk a lot about IRIs. Sometimes, the distinction 
>> is made between absolute IRIs and relative IRIs. I discovered some 
>> time ago that this is inaccurate.
>>
>> According RFC3987 [1], IRIs can not be relative, only *IRI 
>> references* can. Therefore, "absolute IRI" is redundant (but 
>> correct), while "relative IRI" should be "relative IRI reference".
>>
>> Note that, from what I saw, this impacts the following documents:
>>
>>      RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax
>>      RDF 1.1 Turtle
>>      RDF 1.1 TriG – RDF Dataset Language
>>      RDF 1.1 XML Syntax
>>
>> the others make use of "IRI", "absolute" and "relative" in a way 
>> that's consistent with RFC3987.
>>
>>    pa
>>
>> [1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
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