Re: parsing URI (references) according to RFC 3986

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-06-20 11:02, Adam Barth wrote:
>> ...
>> I can just repeat what I've said before.  This behavior needs to be
>> specced.  We can either spec it here or somewhere else.  Given that
>> the behavior is implemented in the URL processing code (and not the
>> DOM), the natural place to spec it is here (and not in the DOM specs).
>> ...
>
> Well, the WG should make a conscious decision here.

That sounds like a good first order of business.

> I can see that it may make sense to define a canonical form. In that case we
> need to decide whether it would be scheme-agnostic (see
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.6.2.2>), or
> whether it needs to go any further. In the latter case we would enter the
> area of scheme-specific rules, which I believe the generic URI/IRI spec
> should not do.

It's extremely likely that it will need to be scheme-specific (with
some short, finite list of scheme types).

Adam