RE: [046-lc-edit-relative-URI] proposed patch

At 10:20 17/09/04 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
>The editorial problem of the definition of terms is over constrained;
>there is no way to satisfy all of the desired properties. After an
>enormous amount of deliberation and discussion, we've made a choice.
>I believe this choice is the best solution, considering all of the
>constraints.

Me too.

(Just to show there's some consensus here ;-)

I also checked Roy's description of the change in [1], and think it's 
fine.  I can see that some might prefer such a change to be more "in your 
face", and were I editor I would probably agree to add a note in the body 
text (section 1.1 or 4.2) describing relative-ref along the lines of:

[[
NOTE:  Previous versions of this specification used the term "relative-URI"
to denote a relative URI reference, but this led to confusion concerning 
identifiers and references (see section 4 "Usage").  Hence the syntax term 
"relative-URI" has been changed to "relative-ref".
]]

#g

[1] http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html


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