To: timbl@www0.cern.ch
In-Reply-To: timbl@ptpc00.cern.ch's message of Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:29:15 -0800 <94Mar24.102927pst.2735@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Snapshot of URL
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Message-Id: <94Mar24.200902pst.2732@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:08:50 PST
Comments on the current URL draft:
rlogin:
maybe I'm imagining something, but didn't we decide to flush 'rlogin'?
mailto semantics:
It says:
> This semantics may be considered to be that the object referred to
> by the mailto: URL is the set of messages sent to or from that
> address. There is no algorithm to retrieve this set, but the SMTP
> protocol allows messages to be added to it, and any given user may
> be aware of a subset of its members.
I don't think this is true! Any more than 'telnet:' refers to the set
of bytes sent from or to the host designated. That is, all 'mailto:'
refers to is an internet mailing address, whether it is a person, a
mailing list or whatever is not part of the URL.
There is no semantics or definition for MID or CID addresses. Again,
am I missing something? Are these new?
> ftptype
You have A | I | D, while I thought were were talking about 'text',
'binary' and 'directory'.