Re: Changing fragbodyref to be an URL

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:33:57PM -0700, Joel A. Nava wrote:
> Daniel, are you saying that a fragbodyref be limited to
> only being a URL?

  Oops mistake, not URL, but URI, and as James pointed out URI Reference
seems the appropriate term.

> As far as the spec goes, a reference is very general, and
> fragbodyref examples, and prose on the subject show them
> to be URIs, URLs, and other types of references. Since
> it is already allowed, I don't see the need to restrict
> a fragbodyref to URLs only.

  Restricting it to a known kind of reference allow to anticipate
on the processing needed to handle the fragment on the receiving side.
In the case one use a packaging mechanism, having a strutured
naming scheme is important for the evolution of the specification.
Expressing fragbodyref references as URIs allows to bypass the
packaging mechanism, and provide a standard way to use Fragment
in the absence of a Packaging format. This is useful when the server
has no idea on the client capacity to decode say Mime multipart messages.

Daniel

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