- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:43:15 PDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Section 3.2.2 says: > > Note: Although the HTTP protocol is independent of the transport layer > protocol, the http URL only identifies resources by their TCP location, > and thus non-TCP resources MUST be identified by some other URI scheme. Paul: > In any case, I'm not sure what compelling purpose this note serves, and > rather than debate it, it might be better just to nuke it. Roy: > It serves as a reminder to implementors and (hopefully) as a way to > nuke people who say "HTTP can only be run over TCP because that > is the only protocol supported by the http URL", which explains the > "and thus ..." above. nuke notes, not people. Larry
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