Re: Deliciously pedantic: what's the plural of URI?

> I note that Roy of late has been using URI as its own plural.

Of late?  I've been doing that for over five years.  See RFC 2396.

>   Elegant and defensible, but I prefer URIs as less surprising to the eye.
>   Even more, I prefer consistency.  Clearly this is a subject on which 
> consensus is not remotely possible... -Tim

I prefer whichever one is easier to say while speaking, since I do not
believe in the theory that people expand acronyms as they read.  But if
others feel strongly about, they can always put it up as an issue on
uri@w3.org.

....Roy

Received on Friday, 9 August 2002 22:10:39 UTC