Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 11:49:17 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch>
Message-Id: <9403111049.AA10013@ptpc00.cern.ch>
To: internet-drafts@ietf.cnri.reston.va.us, rfc-editor@isi.edu,
Subject: WWW-URI: Internet draft and Informational RFC
Cynthia, Jon, Erik,
I have written a new document, as requested by Erik Huizer, to define
the use of Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW. This is the work which
led to the original UDI BOF and URI working group. I would like
to publish it as an informational RFC as background to the process and
as documentation of existing practice.
I understand that it is unfortunately too late to do this as RFC for Seattle,
so I have put in the ID "Status of this memo" section and an
ID header. I would like it to be considered for relese as an informational
RFC though, and will switch the headers and the "Status" paragraphs
the moment I get an RFC number for it, in the hope of turning it around
as soon as possible.
As this is WWW document and not a URI working group one, I guessed
the name to be draft-www-uri-00.{ps,txt}, (by analogy with
draft-www-htmlplus) and have put that into
the headers. I hope this is right, as I am away fo a week now, and
I would really like this to go out in time for people to read it
before Seattle.
The files are available by FTP on info.cern.ch in /pub/www/doc
as draft-www-uri-00{ps,txt}
Thanks in advance!
Tim Berners-Lee
CERN
PS:
The hypertext of all this can be found starting at
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html
I have been hacking around the URL stuff at the same time,
including lists of changes and outstanding points,
marked up versions of Mark McCahill's gopher input,
pointers tobackground material and the URI list
hypertext archives etc but I haven't got it clean
yet and not made a suitable postscript and plain text for ID
distribution -- sorry (I tried)... it will have to wait a week
now as I am away and offline.