To: "Norbert Leser - OSF DCE: (617)621-8715" <nl@osf.org>
Subject: Re: Last Call: URL to Proposed and URN- and IRL-Reqs to Informational
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:35:31 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 20:07:18 -0700
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Message-Id: <9409222007.aa22977@paris.ics.uci.edu>
> Don't know, where this $400 comes from - certainly not from me; anyway,
> here's some order info [As I said before, I cannot speak for X/Open, but
> assume that the fee just about covers the cost of the paper copy. -
> Electronic versions are currently not available.]:
I for one will not discuss any specification which is not freely available
to the public. If X/Open or OSF has a problem with differences between XFN
and the products of an IETF working group, then they should make the XFN
specification publically available in electronic form. If not, then the
XFN specification is not worth consideration by the IETF, period.
As for the draft URN requirements, it is being published as an INFORMATIONAL
RFC. It has no binding status with regard to any future specifications --
it simply provides a permanent name by which it can be referenced.
It can also be obsoleted by future documents if conflicts arise between
the listed requirements and the actual requirements found post-implementation.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>