[9973] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL schemes containing +, -, or .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Tue May 14 14:09:36 1996
To: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Martin Hamilton's message of Thu, 9 May 1996 01:10:39 -0700 <199605090810.JAA13644@gizmo.lut.ac.uk>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 11:04:34 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> I have an Internet Draft (draft-hamilton-whois-url-00.txt) which
> specifies a URL format for the WHOIS++ protocol using the scheme
> "whois." Now, it's been suggested that there really ought to be
> separate schemes for the old WHOIS protocol, WHOIS++, and RWhois
> - defined by (respectively) RFCs 954, 1835 and 1714.
Personally, I'd prefer one URL scheme to three. I don't think there
are clear-cut rules for deciding, though. Are the various WHOIS
schemes interoperable? And is some of this obsoleted by LDAP?
Larry
