Re: proposal: have W3C HTML5 reference dated WHATWG URL standard rather than W3C copy

-1.  It may be that someday we will get to the point where there is a way
to make normative references to WHATWG specs from W3C specs, but today is
not that day.  It will take too long to work out the details.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

> despite the not so great risk of being branded a reactionary
>
> -1
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> despite the risk of being branded a +1er
>>
>> +1
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> SteveF
>> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
>>
>> On 25 September 2014 07:31, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear HTMLWG,
>>>
>>> Summary of specific proposal:
>>>
>>> I propose that W3C HTML5 be updated to normatively reference[1] the
>>> dated WHATWG URL standard[2] instead of the W3C WebApps WG copy[3].
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-html5-20140916/references.html#refsURL
>>> [2] https://whatwg.org/specs/url/2014-07-30/
>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/url/
>>>
>>> I leave the informative language around/in that reference up to editor
>>> discretion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Longer:
>>>
>>> It will better benefit web developers and browser implementers if we
>>> as a working group directly normatively reference the dated WHATWG URL
>>> standard rather than the derivative copy of it being developed in the
>>> W3C WebApps WG.
>>>
>>> Referencing the dated WHATWG URL standard complies with the W3C's
>>> normative reference policy's requirements for stability.
>>>
>>> I think this is a good policy to implement immediately for W3C HTML5,
>>> and any additional specifications produced by the HTMLWG that need to
>>> normatively reference a spec for URLs.
>>>
>>> Furthermore I don't think it is worth W3C's limited resources to work
>>> on a copy/paste/modify version of the WHATWG URL standard, and thus
>>> suggest we as a working group suggest to W3C WebApps WG to drop work
>>> on [3] and to refer clients of that directly to [2] instead.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your consideration,
>>>
>>> Tantek Çelik
>>> Mozilla
>>>
>>>
>>
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