Re: [whatwg/url] Provide a succinct grammar for valid URL strings (#479)

> I cannot just write a separate section because in one way or another it'll compete with the algorithm for normativity, (ao). That's a big problem and I think it is the main reason to resist this.

Yes — and in other cases in WHATWG specs where there’s been discussion about formalisms for similar cases (e.g., some things in the HTML spec), that rationale (people will end up treating the extra formalism as normative) has been a strong argument against including such formalisms in the specs.

For this case, a grammar could be maintained in a separate (non-WHATWG) repo, and published separately — and then the spec could possibly (non-normatively) link to it (not strictly necessary, but just to help provide awareness it exists).

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