* Tim Bray wrote:
>There are a couple of places where we use "uri" in the markup, 
>specifically the "atom:uri" element (3.2.2) and the "uri" attribute of 
>"atom:generator" (4.2.5).
>
>In both cases they're not actually URIs, they're IRIs, so the name is 
>WRONG, except for nobody knows what an IRI is so renaming them "iri" 
>would be confusing, and anyhow everyone thinks of URLs not *RIs, but 
>naming them "url" would be wrong too, so why don't we actually change 
>them to say what they're there for not what their syntax is and use 
>"web" in both cases?  -Tim

We can call those "at" or "about" or "internet" but certainly not "web".
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