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By the standard, of course, they mean their interpretation of it and no amount of talking will convince them otherwise.
eh, that smells like tripple-post

behave my friend

There are TONS of documents about URL and URI standards available. People should really read them before they start cooking up schemes of their own so that they don't make basic simple mistakes.
you're assuming things that have already been refuted
it seems to be very hard to keep to the point (of the topic)