Message-Id: <aacff45502021004e74e@[192.52.71.147]>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 07:14:22 -0400
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ics.uci.edu>
From: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>
Subject: Re: Current URN syntax is unacceptable
At 1:27 AM 10/23/94, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>The following syntax (as seen in <URL:http://www.path.net/mitra/urn.html>)
>is unacceptable for use as a URN standard.
>
> URN:dns:path.net:mitra1234
>
>should be
>
> dns:/path.net/mitra1234
>or
> urn:/dns/path.net/mitra1234
>
>so as to preserve a common URI syntax, as previously agreed on this forum.
Is there a common URI syntax? I remember vocal debates about everything
to the right of the scheme tag being "opaque"... Are you indicated that
you believe that all URI-class objects will have a common syntax that can
be applied prior to scheme recognition?
(I don't mind the change, but would rather not have capricious changes to
meet potentially non-existance consistency belief...)
/John