Re: URI definition Error

Aaron Peterson wrote:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/intro.html#h-2.1.1
> 
> On the document above, URI is defined as Universal Resource Identifier, yet
> at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/references.html#ref-URI it is defined as
> Uniform Resource Identifier.
> 
> Is it Universal or Uniform?

From RFC2396 [1]: 

   A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters
   for identifying an abstract or physical resource. 

I'll mark this inconsistency as an error.

 _ Ian

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

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Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2001 17:06:43 UTC