# Re: Final edits - summary of outstanding points.

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@www3.cern.ch)
Wed, 20 Oct 93 17:34:39 +0100

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 17:34:39 +0100

    From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>

    Message-Id: <9310201634.AA03937@www3.cern.ch>

    To: mitra@path.net (Mitra)

    Subject: Re: Final edits - summary of outstanding points.

>From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 18:30:25 GMT
>
>If you have input please make it now.
OK
>
>3 & 6) Are fragment identifiers part of the URL - I think they were
removed at
>the IETF, Tim thinks they are still in.

The discussion is in but the URI BNF
defines a URI as not including the fragment ID. OK?
>9) Does the news URL need rewriting - I think the current spec is a
URN,
>Tim (& Marc ?) think its fine.

Yes, it's fimne and in use and useful and not suitable
as a URL.
>10) Should the length field be removed from the wais definition.
Everyone
>agrees its no longer needed. The question is whether to leave it in
for
>backwards compatibility with WWW.

I'd be prepared to remove it from our WWW code. Objections?
>16) Should the type field be retained in the Gopher0 URI, I think
its
>redundant, I think Tim believes its needed?

Yes. It is part of the gopher link and to say that
you can do a retrieval without knowing what you are
getting back is in principle true but quite useless!
>17) Do we allow trailing "." in FQDNs - I forget who took which side
here?
>
I agreed to remove the bad example, so we leave the
spec as not allowing the trailing dot.

Tim

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