# Re: URN: wrapper and URLs

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Mon, 18 Oct 93 10:25:55 EDT

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    From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)

    Message-Id: <199310181425.AA22784@oit.oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: URN: wrapper and URLs

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 10:25:55 EDT

If my summary wasn't evidence enough: I vote against Simons motion BUT
offer a counter motion:

In the interest of life and general happiness I propose that we:

a) require all future URIs to start off with the URI identifier plus
a colon in order to identify the purpose of the following URI.
b) Make the statement that IF a URI does not start off with any of the
identified URI wrappers that it MUST be a URL.
c) that ALL URIs be enclosed in angle brackets when in unstructured text.
This will also include the already existing UR*: wrapper on all non
URL identifiers.

BUT,
I personally still maintain and will argue the fact that adding
URL: to the URL spec will gain us a heck of a lot more than we will
loose by adding 5 or 6 lines of code.

(Simon,
I don't know if that followed Roberts Rules or not. Sorry! ;-)

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