Obsolete statement about WebFinger and acct: URIs

The spec currently says:

As of the time of this writing, a discussion is ongoing among WebFinger contributors about the syntax that should be used when discovering information about such accounts with WebFinger. The current thinking seems to be that such accounts would be represented by quoting the '@' character in the userinfo component of the account identifier when constructing the acct: URI representing the account. Such an example is acct:joe%40example.com@example.org. In a future version of this specification, it is possible that normalization rules will be defined allowing End-Users to input values like joe@example.com@example.org to initiate discovery on such accounts.

This was long ago decided. WebFinger [RFC 7033] is full of acct: URI examples and RFC 7565 standardizes them. We should update this note accordingly.

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