- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:32:35 -0400
- To: "'xml-dist-app@w3.org'" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
On Monday 08 July 2002 6:52 pm, Paul Prescod wrote: > The only reason there even existed a concept of an FTP to SMTP gateway > fifteen years ago was because FTP and SMTP used different addressing > models and different method names/semantics. If those were unified into > a single application protocol with URIs and a single set of methods you > could have used an "FTP client" to talk to your "SMTP server". Really an > "ftp client" would be just a different user interface for the shared > protocol. Absolutely right.... URI's + the *abstract* protocol form a complete system.
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