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Re: URL semantics

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Fri, 10 January 1997 03:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: URL semantics
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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# Actually, it seems that the real issue here is whether resources are just
# data objects or whether they also include network services such as Telnet,
# SMTP and News. URLs in the mailto: and telnet: namespaces do not retrieve
# data objects but do invoke services. URLs in the news: or nntp: namespaces
# can have semantics of either type, depending on whether the namespace
# specific string is a newsgroup name or a message ID.

Yes; how would you propose that the "mailto" URL (and the generic
syntax URL and the URL guidelines documents, for that matter) be
changed to reflect this point of view?

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