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IRI/URI

OK, first-time poster :)

I was just thinking about IRIs recently and thought about a possible
source of ambiguousness. If the URI element can be EITHER an IRI or a
URI, then:

<uri>http://example.com/200%25equalsZero</uri>

This is both a valid IRI and a valid URI, but if it is considered to
be an IRI it will point to a different location than if it is
considered to be a URI.

IRI (as URI): http://example.com/200%2525equalsZero
URI: http://example.com/200%25equalsZero

Reading through the draft, it seems like IRIs might be the only thing
allowed. If so, could this be made clearer - through a renaming of the
element for instance

I'm not sure if this is even a problem, perhaps there's something I've
missed in the stack of protocols sitting out there. Feel free to
castrate me if this is the case, I've gotten myself rather confused
trying to work through this by myself and thought I'd ask some more
knowledgeable people ;)