- From: Larry Masinter <LM@att.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:30:14 -0800
- To: <www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: "Makoto MURATA" <murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp>, "Roy Fielding" <fielding@ics.uci.edu>
The date of RFC 2396 is 1998, not 1995. I think it is harmful to reference all of ([IETF RFC 2396], [IETF RFC 1738] and [IETF RFC 1808]); RFC 2396 was meant to replace and obsolete RFC 1738 and 1808, and actually wound up redefining some terms. I think that if you want to point to history you can do so in the introduction, but that normative references to URIs should reference 2396 only: resource: "Note that this term and its definition are taken from the basic specifications governing the World Wide Web, such as IETF RFCs [IETF RFC 2396], [IETF RFC 1738] and [IETF RFC 1808]." but only one definition should be taken... "URI-reference // An optional URI ([IETF RFC 2396], [IETF RFC 1738] and [IETF RFC 1808]) as interpreted " but this term was defined in 2396 only. About the linking document: Note that the revision of the XML mime type definitions should reference the "xml base" document, since the XML base document (re)defines the mechanism for determining a BASE URL for its particular media type. So it updates RFC 2376. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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