Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 13:29:51 -0700
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-Id: <9310192029.AA18403@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: "Erik Huizer (SURFnet BV)" <Erik.Huizer@surfnet.nl>
Subject: IETF work and UR*
In-Reply-To: <9310191146.AA14349@survival.surfnet.nl>
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"Erik Huizer (SURFnet BV)" writes:
> Threats like : " we have an instealled base, so we won't support
> this" are perpendicular to an open standards process and are
> undermingin for concensus. Parties that argue like that have no wish
> to get an open standard but merely a wish to further their own
> inventions.
That's a pretty big straw man to be knocking down with impunity.
Assuming it refers at least partially, if inaccurately, to my
comments, it's probably time for a categorical statement:
Mosaic will support whatever the URI working group comes up
with, as soon as the spec is available.
'Nuff said...
Marc