[Bug 8207] Change definition of URL to normative reference to IRIBIS

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8207





--- Comment #8 from Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  2010-02-04 16:44:55 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> That text is woefully vague. For example the only conformance criteria in the
> definition of "resolve" is "these parsed components may then be recombined",
> which isn't even a requirement (it's a may, not a must).

It's just prose. You do not need a MUST to define how something is done.

I realize you disagree with that, but trying to impose a specific specification
style on others doesn't seem to be productive.

> I'm looking for something which is unambiguous, absolutely clear, precise, and
> explicit about how two incoming Unicode strings and a character encoding are
> turned into a single Unicode string. Currently this simply isn't present in the
> detail needed to interoperably implement URL resolution in the face of
> erroneous URLs. Ideally this would mean a set of steps introduced with a MUST
> requirement, which can be blindly implemented with little thought, with no
> interpretation needed.

It would be helpful if you could elaborate what's wrong; maybe by adding an
example (I totally believe that something might be wrong, but it's unproductive
to do just handwaving).


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