Re: draft-abarth-url-01 uploaded

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 24.04.2011 00:31, Adam Barth wrote:
>> I've uploaded a new version of draft-abarth-url:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-abarth-url-01.txt
>>
>> This version has text in every (normative) section, but still has lots
>> of TODOs and there's still a lot of work to be done.  As always, you
>> can see the lastest up-to-the-commit version of the document here:
>>
>> https://github.com/abarth/url-spec/blob/master/drafts/url.xml
>>
>> My plan is to continue iterating on this document by resolving TODOs.
>
> I still don't understand the purpose -- see previous mails. To make progress
> on this we'll need a list of valid URIs you think need to be parsed
> differently from what RFC 3986 already says.

I don't understand why that's a pre-requisite for this work.  We'll
generate that information as a byproduct of this work, of course, but
we don't need that information to make progress at this point.

> That being said: where does the spec define parsing relative references?
> (see <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.4.2>)

The handling of relative references is in Section 4.  I was expecting
to need to define how to parse them, but that doesn't appear to be
necessary.

Adam

Received on Sunday, 24 April 2011 08:09:28 UTC