Re: Relative URLs, // and ;

On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

> I'd say any hierarchy within which you might want to refer to an intermediate
> level needs // for the top.
> 
> This includes any hierarchy which is ever going to be extended
> upwards (marswards), which is any future proof hierarchy.
> For example, suppose we grandfather DNS within something bigger.
> Then with old DNS land old URLs work but we can write it as
> a part of a new bigger DNS
> 
> 	///old dns//www.w3.org/
>
> for example.

Maybe not exactly related to the current discussion, but this just
gives me an idea for one of our more pressing problems in the syntax
draft: What to do with IP6 numbers. Could we go from
	//130.60.48.61/path
to
	///IP6-number/path
IP6 is certainly grandfathering IP4 addresses with something newer
and bigger.

Regards,	Martin.

P.S.: Discussion redirected to the URL list.