Re: CGI???

>I've seen a number of requests for a more formal specification for CGI
>than  <URL:http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/>.
>
>This leads to the following questions:
>
>1) Is CGI appropriate for an RFC? If not, what standards group would
>        it belong to?

The W3C, probably, if they were interested.

> 2) If it's appropriate for an RFC, is this this WG it would belong to?
>        If not, which does it belong to?

www-talk, I suppose.

> 3) Is anyone working on such a thing now?

Yes. I have written a fairly formal specification of CGI.
See <URL:http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~drtr/cgi.html>

 David Robinson.

Received on Thursday, 9 November 1995 02:36:01 UTC