Re: Status of the RFC 1738 replacements

Larry Masinter scripsit:

> I continue to think 'gopher', 'prospero' and 'wais' should be dropped,
> and that there is no reason to maintain them in standards
> track, that publishing new RFCs describing these is not
> a good use of IETF resources; unless the documents are published
> on April 1, the schemes don't belong in standards track.

I agree wrt "prospero" and "wais", but not "gopher".  There are still
considerable gopher resources out there, and after many releases of
not working, Mozilla has support for gopher URIs once again.

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Received on Friday, 22 October 2004 03:47:17 UTC