--- a/spec/latest/json-ld/index.html	Tue Apr 09 11:49:05 2013 -0400
+++ b/spec/latest/json-ld/index.html	Tue Apr 09 18:28:47 2013 +0200
@@ -3634,7 +3634,7 @@
       <dl>
         <dt><code>profile</code></dt>
         <dd>
-          <p>A a non-empty list of space-separated URI-encoded URIs identifying specific
+          <p>A a non-empty list of space-separated URIs identifying specific
             constraints or conventions that apply to a JSON-LD document according [[RFC6906]].
             A profile does not change the semantics of the resource representation
             when processed without profile knowledge, so that clients both with
@@ -3655,8 +3655,10 @@
             parameter has to be enclosed in quotes (<code>"</code>) because it contains
             special characters and, if multiple profiles are combined, whitespace.</p>
           <p>When processing the "profile" media type parameter, it is important to
-            apply URI-decoding before processing the URI (such as comparing it to
-            known profiles).
+            note that its value is contains one or more URIs and not IRIs. In some cases
+            it might therefore be necessary to convert between IRIs and URIs as specified in
+            <cite><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.1">section 3 Relationship between IRIs and URIs</a></cite>
+            of [[RFC3987]].</p>
         </dd>
       </dl>
     </dd>