@@ -1167,9 +1167,8 @@ provides the ability to validate recursive structures through self-reference.
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11681168The resolved IRI produced by these keywords is not necessarily a network
11691169locator, only an identifier. A schema need not be downloadable from the address
1170- if it is a network-addressable URL, and implementations SHOULD NOT assume they
1171- should perform a network operation when they encounter a network-addressable
1172- IRI.
1170+ if it is a network-addressable URL. Implementations which can access the network
1171+ SHOULD default to operating offline.
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11741173##### Direct References with ` $ref ` {#ref}
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@@ -1299,17 +1298,19 @@ The use of IRIs to identify remote schemas does not necessarily mean anything is
12991298downloaded, but instead JSON Schema implementations SHOULD understand ahead of
13001299time which schemas they will be using, and the IRIs that identify them.
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1302- When schemas are downloaded, for example by a generic user-agent that does not
1303- know until runtime which schemas to download, see [ Usage for
1304- Hypermedia] ( #hypermedia ) .
1305- 13061301Implementations SHOULD be able to associate arbitrary IRIs with an arbitrary
13071302schema and/or automatically associate a schema's ` $id ` -given IRI, depending on
13081303the trust that the validator has in the schema. Such IRIs and schemas can be
13091304supplied to an implementation prior to processing instances, or may be noted
13101305within a schema document as it is processed, producing associations as shown in
13111306{{idexamples}}.
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1308+ Implementations MAY provide functionality to automatically fetch schemas based
1309+ on location semantics expressed by the IRI, however such functionality SHOULD be
1310+ disabled by default to prefer offline operation. When schemas are downloaded,
1311+ for example by a generic user-agent that does not know until runtime which
1312+ schemas to download, see {{hypermedia}}.
1313+ 13131314#### Detecting a Meta-Schema
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13151316Implementations MUST recognize a schema as a meta-schema if it is being examined
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