- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:46:43 -0400
- To: "Jon Davis" <jdavis@inetinit.org>
- cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>, "URI distribution list" <uri@Bunyip.Com>, "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>, ietf@ietf.org, moore@cs.utk.edu
> Right. I understand, you're saying that if you update the spec, existing > implemenations will not be compatible with the updated spec? But, now, if > the existing spec is too limited to support forward-compatibility to future > adaptations, what can one do, except break the spec? You define a new kind of identifier which is not a URI. That way, if people want to define things which *are* compatible with the installed base, they can still reference the URI spec. Keith
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