- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:03:00 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- CC: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>, timbl@w3.org, xml-uri@w3.org
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > RFC 1738 speaks only of URLs, not URIs. So it provides no answer to the question > ``What, exactly, is a URI''. And RFC 2396 says, at the end of the first paragraph of > the Abstract, ``it revises and ***replaces*** the generic definitions in RFC 1738 and > RFC 1808''. However, the *specific* syntax of individual URI schemes (and the syntax of URIs is the union of those syntaxes) in RFC 1738 is *not* overridden. That's why the RFC header says "Updates 1738,1808" instead of "Supersedes 1738,1808". -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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