From mikec@win.icl.co.uk Fri Jul 14 14:23:38 1995 Received: from relay1.pipex.net by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA05978 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:30:23 +0200 Received: from Q.icl.co.uk by flow.pipex.net with SMTP (PP); Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:29:31 +0100 Received: from norman.win.icl.co.uk (norman.win01.icl.co.uk) by Q.icl.co.uk (4.1/icl-2.12-server) id AA08963; Fri, 14 Jul 95 14:28:27 BST Message-Id: <9507141323.AA21372@parkkeeper.peis.icl.co.uk> From: mikec@win.icl.co.uk Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:23:38 +0000 To: CHRIS.BROCKWAY@ecma.ch, sc22wg22@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG22.80) a vote (and more) on www and ftp Cc: "JAN.VAN DEN BELD"@ecma.ch, GINO.LAURI@ecma.ch Content-Length: 582 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Just a comment on Chris's point about the web, one of the beauties of the web is that the links can point to anywhere on the internet so that a link on an ECMA page could point to the DKUUG site and the user would not notice anything different to the material being on the ECMA machine. The question is perhaps then more who is prepared to donate disk space and maintain the PCTE pages rather than where they are physically located. The situation with ftp is somewhat different and depends to a certain extent on whether the a web browser or plain ftp is being used. Mike Curtis