ART is pleased to announce that, true to promised timescale, the first draft of the functional specification for a proposed URI handler mechanism is now available for public download and discussion. The document is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.acorn.co.uk as /pub/documents/api/drafturi . This document is a first draft and is therefore by no means complete, however it gives sufficient detail of a core API to be of releasable value; although the document is subject to change without notice, it is likely that changes will concern themselves primarily with extensions to the API as described rather than with changes to it. Updates to the draft will be made available at ART's discretion. ART will monitor any resulting discussion on comp.sys.acorn.programmer and make salient comments both there and in private email; please do not contact the document's authors directly at this time. Regards, ART Engineering Support