RE: TV Broadcast URI Schemes Requirements

From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Harald@Alvestrand.no)
Date: Fri, Dec 17 1999

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Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991217102045.04f96c80@dokka.maxware.no>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:22:36 +0100
To: Jeff Sussna <jeff.sussna@quokka.com>, "'fin@finseth.com'" <fin@finseth.com>
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Cc: "'www-tv@w3.org'" <www-tv@w3.org>
Subject: RE: TV Broadcast URI Schemes Requirements

At 13:08 30.11.99 -0800, Jeff Sussna wrote:
>Actually, the "U" in URI stands for "uniform", universal. There is nothing
>in the URI spec that states that a given resource identifier must have
>universal semantics. Just look at the "file:" scheme.

The "file:" scheme is also the source of a host of troubles, including all 
the points that were raised in objection to the original "tv:" proposal.

Please don't repeat the mistake.
(just try emailing HTML with an embedded file: reference, and you'll see 
what I mean)

                    Harald
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