>  From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@[...].com]
>  Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:21 PM
>  To: Dave Pawson
>  Cc: collin@seu.edu.cn; xml-dev@[...].org
>  Subject: Re: [xml-dev] 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@[...].org> 
To: "'Israel Viente'" <israel_viente@[...].com> , <uri@[...].org>
Cc: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@[...].org> 
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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