# URI WG decides a couple of things

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch)
Tue, 13 Jul 93 09:40:07 MET DST

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    Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 09:40:07 MET DST

    From: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)

    Message-Id: <9307130740.AA20860@ nxoc01.cern.ch >

    To: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu, terry@ora.com

    Subject: URI WG decides a couple of things

AS few decisions at yesterday's WG session (minutes will be out later)

1. The afs: URL type was removed from the spec due to lack of interest
and because it had not been really discassued or thought out.

2. The mailto:mail@add.ress url was put in.

3. The practice of wrapping URLs within plain ASCII documents
within <> (as is commonly done with mail addresses and news
message IDs) was put in.

I personally hope that <> will also be used to wrap URNs in the same
way. This will save the current rather messy practice of putting
buts of <a name=html>html</a> into plain text, and allow urls to be
used without a knowledge of HTML.

The discussions continue...
Tim

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