Re: Rewrite of feature tag syntax rules

On Fri, 16 May 1997, Albert Lunde wrote:

> Considering the original objectives of URLs (use subset of US-ASCII
> characters that would survive e-mail gateways, something humans
> could write on paper) and the things that had to be factored
> in for backward compatiblity with existing systems and protocols
> (mix of case-sensitive/case-insensitive elements, various
> reserved characters), the idea that the URI name space is
> a bit "broken" seems reasonable to me.

Yes indeed. URLs are a destillate of the Internet. And the
Internet is very broken in various ways. But still working nicely :-).

Regards,	Martin.