From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 20:38:38 GMT [...] I argued that : The existing URL is really an attempt at a URN, a location independant identifier of a message, and as such its great to use it whereever possible, however there are cases - such as the current gopher->news gateways, which use URL's in a form acceptable to most News servers, specifying a message id by newsgroup and article number. They have all the faults of URL's - no guarrantee of access, may disappear etc - but this just makes them dumb to use for long-term reference, they are still URLs. So we should have a URL of the form. <url:nntp://nntp.path.net/comp.infosystems.gopher/1234> To be ADDED to the existing set of definitions. - Mitra