From: Andrew Knutsen <andrewk@sco.com>
To: aboba@internaut.com, raisch@ora.com
Subject: Re: URLs for non-Internet networks?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 10:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <9307211042.aa19557@moscow.sco.COM>
Remember, to many people the Internet is a non-connected network.
Mail-based URL's, ala MIME mail-server external-bodies, would remain useful
for some time I think.
Andrew
> From sco.sco.com!mocha.bunyip.com!uri-request Wed Jul 21 10:32:09 1993
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 11:28:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Rob Raisch <raisch@ora.com>
> Subject: Re: URLs for non-Internet networks?
> To: "Bernard D. Aboba" <aboba@internaut.com>
> Cc: uri@bunyip.com
> In-Reply-To: <9307211626.AA00589@internaut.com>
> Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9307211117.B12408-9100000@ruby.ora.com>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> URLs are simply instructions to retrieve a thing. The program doing the
> actual retrieval must know how to carry those instructions out. URLs
> *could* be used to reference objects on other, non-connected networks.
> They would be of little use, though, until there is a wide-spread way of
> retrieving from those nets.
> </rr>
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