Re: URL revision

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Wed, 27 Jul 1994 10:54:49 -0400

Message-Id: <9407271454.AA06127@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 10:54:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: Larry Masinter's message as of Jul 26, 13:22
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, fielding@simplon.ics.uci.edu
Subject: Re: URL revision

[ Larry wrote: ]
. . .
> I don't think it is appropriate at this time to try to shoehorn
> relative URLs back into THIS document. I don't believe we need 'a bit
> more study', but keeping the components of the information
> architecture separable seems like a good idea.

I am not arguing that we need to take months to work up a
spec for relative URLs. All I was trying to say was that
we didn't have consensus on how they should look and the
rest of the document was ready to go, so it should go out
now.

- peterd

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