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From: bajan@bunyip.com (Alan Emtage)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 22:44:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: Karen R. Sollins's message as of Jun 12, 19:48
To: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>, masinter@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: the URL document
Hi Karen,
> Sounds to me like you should just procede ahead. I also am anxious to
> see things completed at this point. Who is writing the URL
> requirements document? What is it's state? Shouldn't that really
> come first? My vague recollection is that it was essentially done at
> some time that has faded into the misty past, at least for me. Or has
> it faded so much from my mind that I've lost track of its completion?
> Looking back at the proposed new charter for the URI WG, the URL
> requirements doc (and standard) were to have been submitted in May.
Correct. The requirements doc was in the hands of John Kunze. At the last
meeting it was approved and I believe that at this point it just needs to
be submitted to the Chair and we can send it up the line. Its an
information RFC so we don't have to go through all the standards track
stuff.
> By the way, while we're at it, could whoever is working on the URN
> spec please send out a draft of its current state, so that we can get
> that completed as well?
The only URN functional specifications that we currently have was the
original draft written by Chris Weider and Peter Deutsch. However, that
seems to have expired. Chris, the keeper of the flame, is currently on
the road (in Prague along with the rest of the Internet :-). I will ask
him to repost it on his return.
That draft was designed before your (& Larry's) document was published
and will probably need some reworking as a result.
I know that Tim and Mitra have an alternate scheme in mind (which we
talked a bit about in Seattle). Maybe they would be willing to write this
up and submit it to the list, even if in strawman form for the end of the
month so that the group could review it in Toronto? Mitra? Tim?
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