From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199312032209.AA01682@oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Minor clarification on url: prefix (fwd)
To: uri@bunyip.com
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 17:09:51 EST
> Larry Masinter said this:
> Yes, but what was promoted at the meeting as 'consensus' was that URL:
> was part of the URL and not part of the wrapper around it.
> I don't see anything wrong with standardizing <URL:http://...as the
> syntax for a wrapper in ascii text, but requiring it in all other
> contexts seems silly.
I think I see the difference here. I don't consider anything "in context".
HTML is just as much an ASCII stream to me as a news message. If I have
to know every context's identification method them I might as well not
have URL: at all.
For example, I give you a bit stream. Nothing more. No identification, no
nothing. With URL: mandatory in all contexts you can find URLs in that
bit stream. With URL: not mandatory in all contexts you have to know and
understand ALL contexts....
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