Re: Change definition of URL to normatively reference IRI specification using a well-defined interface

Thank you for your submission.

Recorded here: http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-056

Regards,
Maciej

On Apr 5, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

>
> ISSUE-56
> ========
>
> SUMMARY
> The HTML specification is changed slightly to reference the IRI
> specification using a well-defined interface.
>
> RATIONALE
> To ensure a clean modular separation of the IRI and HTML  
> specifications,
> an interface is needed. This allows the specifications to co-exist  
> in a
> well-defined way without each specification needing to be continually
> updated as the other is fixed (for example, changing references to  
> section
> numbers or step numbers).
>
> DETAILS
> Update the IRI specification to define two algorithms:
>
> * parsing an address (relative or absolute): algorithm to obtain a
>   failure/success condition (not the same as whether the input is
>   valid or not, just whether it can be parsed), and the following
>   components, from parsing an arbitrary string:
>    - <scheme> component
>    - <host> component
>    - <port> component
>    - <hostport> component
>    - <path> component
>    - <query> component
>    - <fragment> component
>    - <host-specific> component
>
> * resolving an address A relative to a base address B with an  
> encoding C:
>   algorithm for parsing an arbitrary string A and resolving it  
> relative
>   to address B (which will have been resolved, but may be invalid),  
> using
>   a specified character encoding C, and returning either success or
>   failure, and in the case of success, a string, with the following
>   conditions:
>    - the output of the algorithm must be idempotent even if the base
>      argument is changed (i.e. once resolved, resolving it again with
>      the same character encoding cannot change the result)
>    - resolving preserves errors, e.g. resolving "http://example.com##"
>      returns "http://example.com/##" not "http://example.com/#%C3".
>
> Update the HTML spec to use these algorithms and reference the IRI  
> spec
> that defines them.
>
>
> IMPACT
>
> POSITIVE EFFECTS
> None.
>
> NEGATIVE EFFECTS
> None.
>
> CONFORMANCE CLASS CHANGES
> None.
>
> RISKS
> None.
>
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Received on Tuesday, 6 April 2010 00:22:03 UTC