Re: Use of ";" in relative URLs: procedural issue?

Susan Hardy for Tim BL <timbl@w3.org> Tue, 18 February 1997 20:44 UTC

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From: Susan Hardy for Tim BL <timbl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Use of ";" in relative URLs: procedural issue?
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At 04:09 PM 2/3/97 -0500, Karen R. Sollins wrote:
>Let me suggest that if you really want to support unordered attribute
>sets as names that you look VERY carefully at why this approach was
>dropped by the CCITT a number of years ago. 

X.500 was addressing a different problem, that of being able to
search the space of all possible names given a wildcard expression.
There is no such requirement for the URI syntax.

Tim


Susan Hardy
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