- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:15:48 -0700
- To: uri@w3.org
> > ..In some > >usage, "quite widespread" means "completely widespread", and in other > >usage, it would mean "slightly widespread". I would prefer "so common > >as to be almost universal." How about just deleting the word 'quite', leaving it as 'widespread'. > >"Developers of new FTP client implementations that consume FTP URIs > >should attempt access to the file using the slash-prefixed > >('/<cwd1>...') path first, and only use the format specified > in RFC 1738 > >('<cwd1>...') if that operation fails." > > This works for me; how do others feel? "Implementations of FTP URIs SHOULD attempt to access the file using the slash-prefixed ..." This is a recommendation, there's no point in qualifying it to 'new implementations'. Old implementations that don't do this SHOULD also be changed, if they're being updated. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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