* Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, 2022-03-28, 20:27:
See RFCs 4395 (obsoleted by 7595) and 7595. So, since URI and URL have been used as synonims
s/synonim/synonym/ (here and elsewhere)
the RFCs seem to have explicitly avoided URL, and now use URI as the only term, which still means what it meant (so now URL is just a synonim for URI).
No, as far as RFCs are concerned, URLs are a proper subset of URIs; they are not synonyms.
This commit replaces (almost all) occurences of URL by URI, except when it is referring to the old term itself. Keep some legacy info just for readers to understand this.
I'm not sure this is a step in the right direction. As a data point, in contrast to IETF, WHATWG standardized on the term "URL":
https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals -- Jakub Wilk
