Re: respecting IETF customs?

* Sam Ruby wrote:
>I will say that if the IETF-W3C liaison group feels that submitting this 
>content as an Internet-Draft makes sense, I will follow through on that. 
>  After all, publishing this content on WebPlatform.org was a result of 
>me following up on a suggestion[1].  If there are other serious 
>suggestions, I WILL follow up on them.

You could also consider submitting a problem statement or other kind of
higher level document with pointers to your proposals. Something, in any
case, is better than nothing, if you want to raise awareness within and
get feedback from the IETF community.

>An example where help would be very much appreciated: would it be 
>possible for somebody who not only is familiar with RFC 3986 but also 
>has a sense for what parts might be changeable and what parts can't 
>change to review the following:
>
>https://url.spec.whatwg.org/interop/urltest-results/

This page is rather difficult to digest. One problem is that there is no
indication of expected results, and the colour coding does not indicate,
for instance, where test results diverge from the relevant RFCs. My 

  http://shadowregistry.org/js/misc/

presents tests and results in a form that makes such information more
readily available.

>And while that is a broad request, here is a much more focused request, 
>define some test cases which will define how relative references should 
>be evaluated against a base with an unknown URLs/URIs scheme:
>
>https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27233

You already seem to have plenty of tests if you replace the scheme in
them, and if you have a setup that can automatically evaluate tests, I
would simply automatically generate test cases. For an example, see

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Aug/0001.html

I also note that RFC 3986 already fully defines this, and I am not aware
of differences in deployed code that cannot be changed in this regard.
If there are, they ought to be brought up on the `public-iri` or `uri`
list.
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