# Re: how to make progress on the URL document

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch)
Wed, 23 Mar 94 16:37:18 +0100

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    Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 16:37:18 +0100

    From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch>

    Message-Id: <9403231537.AA14169@ptpc00.cern.ch>

    To: "Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>

    Subject: Re: how to make progress on the URL document

> Mark:
> I had sent text for the gopher section before,

OK, I had marked it up and linked it in too, as a draft
I'll make it the definitive if everyone is OK with it. I just
wondered if it had changed. I would like to make
the following changes:

1. Use "?" back as search delimitera s it was
As it is the
last thing in the URL it doesn't screw anything
up, it is easy to implement, and "?" is a reserved
character anyway. Reasons as before. Also,
don't want to change it now. It'll break existing
URLs and software.
2. In a URL, if a "/" does not imply a hierarchy, it
should be escaped. (This just affects gopher servers
whose files contain "/" but aren't directory
delimiters, like Mac servers). If you want the
string to be 100% opaque, just specify that
"/" is escaped.

3. Make small editorial changes to style
d/Bear with me/ etc.
4. The other schemes make reference to protcocol
specs, so the URL spec defined the mapping onto
the protocol but not the protocol. The
Gopher+ stuff gets quite deep into the protocol --
is there something to which we could referer?
Could there be something? If you specify something
in two places you get into trouble in the end... :-}

Erik, Alan,

Erik had asked me to produce a draft which did not
have largely new featueres in it at this stage.
I'm open to chairman's comments on the above.

Tim

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