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