- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 18:52:52 PST
- To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
- Cc: brent@jurassic.eng.sun.com, uri@bunyip.com
Harald, We have a small group working on revising the URL draft in preparation for the step of moving URL and Relative URL to Draft Standard. The plan is to separate out the 'basic syntax' from each of the individual URL schemes; each scheme (ftp, gopher, mailto, news, telnet, ...) will get its own Internet Draft and move into standards track on its own. It is possible that some of them will need to recycle at Proposed since what's actually implemented in some cases differs from what was described in 1738 & 1808. I don't think it is necessary to revive URI as a working group to do this, and the individual schemes might best be reviewed by the working groups for the corresponding protocols as long as we can get some separate review here. I would like to make sure we get the attention of those who are proposing new URL schemes to the syntactic issues, though. I'm hoping we'll get an early draft out quickly. It seemed to me that it was possible for us to merge the basic syntax in 1738 and 1808 so that there weren't two separate BNFs for URLs, though. Larry
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