- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:24:36 -0500
- To: <uri@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <00ac01c2c2e3$7a72bde0$0301a8c0@w3.org>
I would very much like us to take the opportunity to clean up theterminologyon the URI spec which has confused people. It is my considered opinion thatthis would be far preferable:URI - the actual identifier string, with or without a #fragid.URI reference - a string used in a language to specify a URI, for whichrelative form may be used where a base exists. ((This is not the only way ofspecifying the value of a URI - one can use variouscharacter sets, namespace prefixes, etc))The spec would do well to define the function from base and reference toURI and back again rel(u, base) and abs(u, bae)and to point out that you can use abs(rel(u, base), base) for u in allcircumstances.Tim Berners-Lee
Received on Thursday, 23 January 2003 08:27:03 UTC