[uf-discuss] URIs vs URLs (reference)

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
> > In W3C terminology, the term "URL" is officially obsolete.
> 
> Do you have a reference for that. I've been using URI preferentially 
> since "I thought I heard that somewhere" but it'd be nice to sort that 
> out.

First hit for "uri url" on Google is:

   http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

...which is a list of links. The first link on that page containing both 
the term URI and the term URL is:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/

...which is what I was referring to.

HTH,
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