- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 22:18:20 PST
- To: jayhawk@ds.internic.net
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, urn-ietf@bunyip.com
Ryan, I don't think we intend for 'a:b:c:d' to be parsed as belonging to scheme 'a:b:c', so I think we should fix the regular expression in appendix B to treat 'urn:isbn:1-32456-78902-X' as belonging to scheme 'urn' and not scheme 'urn:isbn'. I don't know how to proceed on the issue of changing the URL draft to describe URNs and URN parsing. I think if we're going to proceed from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard that we are not supposed to add functionality, and that the only changes we can make are those that are consistent with current practice. I don't know why URNs don't require any determinist structure to URNs while it seemed important that URLs require such a structure for URLs. (Actually, URLs don't make such a requirement, they just don't guarantee that relative URLs work if you don't use it.) Larry
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