Re: CID: and MID: URL schemes

Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 21:29:26 +0100 

From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Message-Id: <9511202030.AA23078@mocha.bunyip.com>
To: Ed Levinson <elevinso@Accurate.COM>
Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, uri@bunyip.com,
Subject: Re: CID: and MID: URL schemes
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 11:05:48 EST." <9511021605.AA03874@Accurate.COM>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 21:29:26 +0100

Ed,
one reason why cid and mid should be different is that you search
for one in content-id: fields and for the other in message-id: fields.

A client may be able to search for one and not the other.
And, as you say, we can't guarantee that the intersection set is empty.

           Harald A