# Re: Unresolved URL issues

Mitra (mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us)
Mon, 7 Mar 1994 20:38:38 GMT

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    From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)

    Subject: Re: Unresolved URL issues

    Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 20:38:38 GMT

    Message-Id: <CMBAoF.1sE@pandora.sf.ca.us>

: b) News and NNTP URLs
: Majority: unclear
: There was a discussion on this some time back. I belive that Tim and
: Mitra were on opposite sides of this fence. Would it be possible for the
: two of them to send a message 20 lines or less with a brief summary of
: their respective sides? Whatever is finally decided the WG grandfathered
: the news URL already.

I argued that :

The existing URL is really an attempt at a URN, a location independant
identifier of a message, and as such its great to use it whereever
possible, however there are cases - such as the current gopher->news
gateways, which use URL's in a form acceptable to most News servers,
specifying a message id by newsgroup and article number. They have all
the faults of URL's - no guarrantee of access, may disappear etc - but
this just makes them dumb to use for long-term reference, they are still
URLs. So we should have a URL of the form.

<url:nntp://nntp.path.net/comp.infosystems.gopher/1234>

To be ADDED to the existing set of definitions.

- Mitra

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