The Curie Syntax document should warn that CURIEs that match the RFC 3987 production named "IP-literal" may be mistaken for suffix references (see RFC 3986 section 4.5) by permissive URI parsers. For example, "[dead::beef]" is a valid CURIE, but also a valid URI authority-part in the form of an IPv6 address.
Alternatively, the ambiguity (which does not affect either absolute URIs or relative references) could be disposed of by forbidding colons in CURIE suffixes. -- My corporate data's a mess! John Cowan It's all semi-structured, no less. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan But I'll be carefree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using XSLT On an XML DBMS.
