- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 21:40:39 PST
- To: dan.zigmond@wink.com
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
a) The "//" is not some magic indicator saying 'this is top level'. Usually it is used to signify Internet FQDNs. Its use in 'tv://nbc' is inappropriate. b) Your channel identification scheme is not global. How are television channels identified outside of the US? c) Your channel identification scheme is not 'uniform', in that if I point to 'tv://12' and you point to 'tv://12', we are likely to get different resources. While this can happen with 'file:///' resources where the host name is elided, such URLs are not intended for global distribution. I think if you want to refer to television channels (or radio stations, for that matter) you should have a short unambiguous way of identifying _which_ station, independent of the resolution mechanism needed to attach to that station. Your phone and fax URLs has problem (a) -- the "//" is not needed -- and also problem (b) -- there is no need to elide the country code. You might want to refer to the 'tpc.int' experimental documents, the nascent VPIM specification (Voice Profile for Internet Mail) and the newly forming IETF FAX working group (http://www.imc.org/ietf-fax), who may be interested in a fax URL scheme. Regards, Larry Masinter http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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