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RE: Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?

• To: <veillard@r...>,"Dave Pawson" <dpawson@n...>
• Subject: RE: Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:38:16 +0200
• Cc: <collin@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <20030717122103.F20537@r...>

> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@r...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:21 PM
> To: Dave Pawson
> Cc: collin@s...; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?
> 
> ...
>
>   - get someone to clean up that mess by redefining the file
>     scheme in a new RFC (good luck too)
> 
>   Really depressing ! All bets are off in that area :-(
> ...

From <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003May/0070.html>:

"From: "Larry Masinter" <LMM@a...>
To: "'Israel Viente'" <israel_viente@i...>, <uri@w...>
Cc: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@m...>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:06:36 -0700
Message-ID: <011b01c31f56$c122aeb0$b7422099@MASINTERPAD>
Subject: RE: Some clarification on file URLs


The 'file' scheme is terribly underspecified. Over the years,
various persons have volunteered to write an update.

Most recently, in March
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Mar/0043.html)
Dan Kohn and Paul Hoffman volunteered to scope the work
and take on some of it, and on May 2
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003May/0016.html
Paul said that it was on his schedule for "this weekend".
...
"

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