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

> And it is not a copy, thank you very much. An immense amount of work went into this and it goes quite beyond what the WHATWG standard offers.

Oh, I don't mean you personally; my comment was directed at the IETF as an organisation. Their opposition to this standard (and I think it's fair to say there is widespread opposition among its members) seems to be largely based around where it lives and who maintains it. Their primary motivation seems to be to have something with the IETF's name on it.

> It won't be more "final"

AFAIK, the IETF doesn't do living standards. Meanwhile, this standard is essentially in its initial testing phase in a single browser. We'll need to see what issues Safari (and other WebKit-based browsers) users encounter, and that will be some sort of validation of this standard, and then wait for adoption by other browsers, see what issues their users encounter, etc. This standard is likely at least a couple of years away from meeting its goal of describing how browsers behave, IMO.

Anyway, that's all I have to say on it. I just wanted to clarify that it wasn't an attack at you personally, @alwinb 

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