Re: [Sip] URI and URL

Sean Olson wrote:
> 
> --- "Chen, Xin (Xin)" <xchen2@lucent.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> >
> > I still don't quite catch why they are
> > interchangeable for the purposes of
> > SIP since the text says the URL is the subset of
> > URI. According to the text,
> > I think the xchen2@lucent.com is like the URI and
> > SIP:xchen2@lucent.com or
> > mailto:xchen2@lucent.com is like the URL,  beacuse
> > SIP:xchen2@lucent.com
> > futher narrows the resource by a protocol name.
> 
> To be explicit, my SIP URL is
> "sip:sean.olson@isp.com". All URLs are also URIs
> (this is the part about URLs being a subset of the
> URI space). So, my SIP URI is "sip:sean.olson@isp.com"

One of the (minor) changes in bis was to consistently call it a SIP URI,
not a SIP URL. This is based on current thinking in the URN/URI/URL
community. Please see:

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uri-ig-02.txt

for a discussion of the differences, or lack thereof.

For the most of the rest of us, the terms URI and URL are
interchangeable, and refer to the same thing - sip:user@domain, for
example.

-Jonathan R.

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