Scheme Section 2 quibble

[Philip Linde]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:45:50 -0500
John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> In what follows, I am going to assume that "URL" and "URI" are synonymous,
> which they have been for 15 years since RFC 3986 was published.

That may not be an entirely uncontroversial assumption. URLs were
AFAIK last defined by the IETF in RFC 1808, where relative URLs were
first specified and the distinction became necessary. In RFC 1808, an
URL is either an absolute URL or a relative URL (analogous to
relative-ref). In that sense, an URL is rather analogous with
URI-reference of RFC 3986.

I completely agree on all other points, and the point above is only
further reason for clarification. What is and isn't an URL is a bit
loosey-goosey throughout, which is why RFC 3986 is welcome.

-- 
Philip
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