Re: [url] Requests for Feedback (was Feedback from TPAC)

On 2014-12-06 01:31, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Sam Ruby wrote:
>> At a minimum, I would like to know whether or not the IETF is OK with
>> the goals:
>>
>> https://specs.webplatform.org/url/webspecs/develop/#goals
>
> At the moment that section reads, through W3C's html2txt service,

Thanks Björn!

>    Goals
>
>       The URL standard takes the following approach towards making
>       URLs fully interoperable:
>         * Align RFC 3986 and RFC 3987 with contemporary
>           implementations and obsolete them in the process. (E.g.
>           spaces, other "illegal" code points, query encoding,
>           equality, canonicalization, are all concepts not entirely
>           shared, or defined.) URL parsing needs to become as solid
>           as HTML parsing. [34][RFC3986] [35][RFC3987]

I think obsoleting RFC 3986 is a non-goal; *until* it is demonstrated 
that there's actually a problem with that spec (at which point bug 
reports should be sent).

> ...


Best regards, Julian

Received on Saturday, 6 December 2014 08:11:12 UTC