To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Current URN syntax is unacceptable
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Oct 1994 09:53:41 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 22:27:40 -0700
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Message-Id: <9410222227.aa28637@paris.ics.uci.edu>
The following syntax (as seen in <URL:http://www.path.net/mitra/urn.html>)
is unacceptable for use as a URN standard.
URN:dns:path.net:mitra1234
should be
dns:/path.net/mitra1234
or
urn:/dns/path.net/mitra1234
so as to preserve a common URI syntax, as previously agreed on this forum.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>