On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:17 -0600, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> There's a bug being perpetuated here.
>
> 1. Every IRI is a URI
>
> 2. Not every URI is an IRI.
>
> The IRIs are subsets of URIs, not the reverse.
Well, in this case it really seems that lots of organizations (including
OASIS) are getting it wrong. See for example
http://xml.coverpages.org/URI-IRI-Glue.html :
"According to the IRI specification, every URI is already an IRI."
Of course more importantly:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt states in the third last paragraph
on page 10:
"Every URI is by definition an IRI."
And I think we should consider RFC3987 as authoritative on this matter.
Andreas
