Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 19:11:33 -0700
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-Id: <9310210211.AA05782@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: <> One Last Time
In-Reply-To: <199310201920.AA24804@rock.west.ora.com>
Terry Allen writes:
> Re draft-ietf-uri-resource-names-01.txt, just announced, we still
> have specified < > as wrappers for URNs in plain text. I'm going to
> say it one more time, then shut up: This is the worst possible
> choice, as plain text will often be upgraded to HTML
...and (to try to separate this out from what may be seen as
proprietary interests of the World Wide Web project) other SGML
formats.
> URN (unwrapped)
> <<URN>>
> <:URN>
> < URN>
> [URN]
> (URN)
> <*URN>
> #URN#
([URN])
[(URN)]
<(URN)>
{URN}
+URN+
........
> etc. If the point of the angle brackets is to make it easy for
> humans to find these strings in plain text, why not make it easy
> for humans to find those same strings in HTML, by not wilfully
> screwing up the HTML syntax?
...and SGML in general.
Marc