URLs: Change History

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch)
Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:00:58 +0100

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:00:58 +0100

From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch>

Message-Id: <9403231700.AA14219@ptpc00.cern.ch>

To: uri@bunyip.com

Subject: URLs:  Change History

I made have missed some things out but here is my record of
changes.

Tim BL

URL specification: Change history
CHANGE HISTORY

This is a list for those who have difficulty in following the
oscilations of this specification ;-). These follow typically from a
mixture of working group meeting sat the IETF tempered by net
discussion. See also: outstanding issues[1]

In brackets, names are links to requests for changes.

March 1993

Folowing Input from Alan Emtage[2] , and others,

Any reference to Requirements and Terms removed,(alan[3])

Any reference to "Universal" moved to the www-uri document.
(alan[4])

RFC850 references changed to rfc1036 in news section (

Security section[5] contains alert as to use of URLs to provoke
dangerous remote operations, and about embedded CRLF.

Everything about Fragment identifiers[6] and Partial forms[7]
removed entirely

Gopher changed dramatically to contain large parts of Gopher +
protocol, change search setring delimiter changed (?) (Mark)

The Pre-Prefix "URL:" is now a formal part of the URL. (alan.
See moot point[8])

List of outanding points[9] made apart from specification.

October 1993[10]

Spaces not allowed[11] . done.

+ and - are allowed[12] . done[13] .

URL: prefix is part[14] of a url now. Provisionally in BNF[15] .

Fragments are not now part[16] of the document (Mitra).

nntp: scheme added (Pro: mitra, peterd. Con: timbl). done[17] .

WAIS length removed[18] . done[19] .

Prospero part changed from bcn@isi.edu's previous[20] to
current[21] version.

July 1993

All printable ASCII characters including spaces allowed.

URL: prefix is out.

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