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To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Oct 93 23:57:26 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 93 01:34:25 -0400
From: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
I rise to a point of order; the question has not yet be put; therefore the
member's vote is not in order. Furthermore, may I request that he remove his
puppies from this sandbox to prevent the spread of ringworms.
The problem that the member for Montreal seems to be addressing is that of
identifying URIs within arbitrary text. This is a valid concern, and one
that I am particularly glad to see the member raise in the light of statements
made at the previous meeting of this body.
However, although the concerns of the member are valid, I put it to the house
that they do not pertain to the definitions of URLs, URNs, or other URIs per se,
but are instead an separate issue to be dealt with in a separate motion.
In a previous meeting, a proposal was made that URLs be demarcated in
plain text by the use of the characters '<' and '>', this demarcation
being a convention agreed upon outside the scope of the specification.
Since it might be argued that this syntax is less than ideal, an amendment
by the member for Montreal might be favourably recieved.
Simon
p.s.
I've been studying some of the issues relating to video-conferencing and
resource discovery/location; this has become a pressing concern thanks to the
North Carolina Information Highway. I hope to have a section on this in my
presentation to IIIR (working title: "Horton hears a whois").