- From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:16:35 +1100
- To: "Kent Watsen" <kent+ietf@watsen.net>
- Cc: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "tom petch" <ietfa@btconnect.com>, "art@ietf.org" <art@ietf.org>, "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>, "uri-review@ietf.org" <uri-review@ietf.org>, "Mahesh Jethanandani" <mjethanandani@gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 5, 2025, at 01:46, Kent Watsen wrote: > But I'm still trying to square the statement "URIs are more complicated > than your decomposed structure allows for". So far, they still appear > to be 1-1 to me. Can an example where conversion doesn't hold be > provided? A pointer to some text in an RFC would also be great. Try RFC 8141 to start. Or sip: URIs. Or mailto:. Or steam:. Or view-source:. Or about:. Or ipfs:. https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml lists a lot of schemes, few of which fit your structure well, I suspect.
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