URI agenda for Washington

[Alan Emtage <[e-mail]>]

This is a draft agenda for the newly created joint User Services/Applications
IETF WG on Uniform Resource Identifiers to meet in Washington week after
next. Please send any additions along for inclusion.

Attendees are reminded that this work will be performed in conjunction
with existing and newly created working groups (NIR, IIIR) and will
ultimately be placed on the Standards Track. 

Please recirculate this agenda to groups having an interest in this
discussion.

Personal observation: this should be an "interesting" session :-) 

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	IETF WG Uniform Resource Identifiers

Co-chairs: Peter Deutsch ([e-mail])
	   Alan Emtage ([e-mail])

1) Review of current charter making any changes deemed necessary for the
   final version.

2) Review and discussion of Tim Berners-Lee's ([e-mail])
   document on Uniform Resource Locators. [Note: Tim's announcement for
   this document is included at the end of this message].

3) Discussion of other components of a full URI.
	- The concept of what a URI looks like has been greatly expanded
	  past URI = URL + USRN with recent discussions. 
	- What components make up a URI
	- A lot of work is being done in the Library community and the
	  last thing we need is another standards conflagration. What
	  lines of communication should be established ?
	- Which parts can be tackled now, which should be put off until
	  later? What kind of timetable are we looking at ?
	- Can bodies be assigned to draw up the additional architecture?
	  Who ?

4) Other business

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-Alan



Document Availability:

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 17:58:08 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: URLs - new document;      URL mail server


A new URL definition document is available at locations

	ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/ietf/url3.txt
	ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/ietf/url3.ps

The document has a few changes which were mentioned at the Boston
BOF -- please send anything I've forgotten to me ASAP for inclusion
befoer the Washington.

(Note old WWW clients require "file:" prefix instead of "ftp:" prefix
for FTP archive documents, but latest library allows either during transition  
period).
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I won't be in DC but will expect a talk session to be set up with the  
meeting...   :-)


	Tim Berners-Lee