Re: file: URIs without host

I don't think we'd have to go too far in documenting the various  
inconsistent ways they're already used, so I don't see as much  
trouble along those lines.  However, we would want to see who would  
implement a new, rationalized way of handling them.

Lisa



On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:02 AM, John Cowan wrote:

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> Jeremy Carroll scripsit:
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>> Any thoughts?
>> Which way should we rationalize behaviour?
>> Should we be working on an I-D for file: ?
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> The trouble is that a file: ID would have to document and explain
> the various inconsistent ways in which file: is already being used.
> To paraphrase Tennesee Ernie Ford:
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> 	When you see file: coming, better step aside,
> 	A lotta men didn't, and a lotta men died.
> 	One way for Explorer, another for Mozill',
> 	If the right hand don't a-getcha then the left one will.
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