Path/file URI handling

[jdockerty]

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Question

Are the path URIs intended to be fully addressable, such as within the location or metadata-file fields?

From the example given in the spec with a path of s3://bucket/.../v1.json to some table metadata JSON, this would be missing a region configuration and would be down to a client implementation to set AWS_REGION=YOUR_REGION or configured in some other way.

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For some extra context, I asked this question in the Iceberg Slack and believe I understand the answer, but wanted to make it more discoverable for others who are searching issues.

I'd also like to ask whether there is anywhere within the spec I can add this information? My original thought was within the implementation notes, but it is not clear to me whether this is the correct place.