# Re: URL: Outstanding issues

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch)
Fri, 25 Mar 94 15:50:42 +0100

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    Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 15:50:42 +0100

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

    Message-Id: <9403251450.AA15248@ptpc00.cern.ch>

    To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

    Subject: Re: URL: Outstanding issues

Replying to Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
of Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:02:34 PST

> Re: ftp transfer mode:
> I saw a different suggestion to use
> blahblah;mode=text
>

> and, personally, I liked being explicit that it was the transfer mode
> you were specifying.

So do I. Yes, I hadn't processed that one. I shall release a new draft with
that in.

> > re: PrePrefix
>

> Tim, you're not helping us by reviving it this way. We decided that
> "Telephone:" is a mandatory part of writing down a telephone number in
> any ascii encoding of telephone numbers.

Sorry, didn't mean to bring it up again, just
wanted to record the points of view. Consensus is
recorded, the spec contains the requirement.

> > re: Wrapper
>

> I would like to formally have my suggestion considered, that the wrapper be
> allowed to be any ONE OF < > or " " or ' ' or { }, to allow the
> wrapper to be used effectively in multiple contexts. This allows
> maximum flexibility, some compatibility with SGML (in HTML, the
> wrapper would be the "" or '' in <A HREF="url:...."> ).

Yes, sorry, Larry I remember your point. It's in the
list of outstanding points now.
(I understood from the Alan's comments though that the
discussion was deemed to be only about what to do in plain text, not
SGML or other things. In plain text, there are no
delimiters provided, whereas in SGMl, C, etc one
has no choice.)
I'l release a new snapshot with the above FTP stuff
taken care of.

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