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 | | As with URIs, an IRI is defined as a sequence of characters, not as a sequence of octets. |
 | | An IRI with a scheme that is known to use domain names in ireg-name, but where the scheme definition does not allow percent-encoding for ireg-name, meets scheme-specific restrictions if either the straightforward conversion or the conversion using the ToASCII operation on ireg-name result in an URI that meets the scheme- specific restrictions. |
 | | Protocols and data formats often limit some IRI comparisons to simple string comparison, based on the theory that people and implementations will, in their own best interest, be consistent in providing IRI references, or at least be consistent enough to negate any efficiency that might be obtained from further normalization. |
| www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc3987.txt (12694 words) |
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