- From: Paul Hoffman <ietf-lists@proper.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:06:07 -0800
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
At 9:39 AM 1/16/95, Daniel W. Connolly wrote: >As long as we're not using the mailto: name, I suggest we use the >same name that the MIME spec gives to this functionality, i.e. >mail-server. That would have been a good idea before RFC1738 was submitted, but I think it is unwise now that "mailserver" (unhyphenated) is already a reserved name there. >Wherever possible, I think the MIME external-body access type >namespace and the URI scheme namespace should coincide. It seems silly >to have different names for the same functionality -- or even worse -- >different functionality by the same name. I agree completely. We should keep an eye out for this in future URL scheme names. It is unfortunate that we didn't do that in this case six months ago. --Paul Hoffman --Proper Publishing
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