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

Yes, I have become increasingly frustrated and hurt.

We can talk about it endlessly. Meanwhile nothing is changing and the issue remains open.

It is feasible to combine and update the IETF documents. The changes are tricky but not large. This would be significantly less work than changing the WHATWG standard to include a formal grammar and cover all of what the RFCs provide. 

The WHATWG can recognise that effort and publish an improved algorithm in pseudocode, a reference implementation, an API and tests in such a way that they agree. Both documents should openly acknowledge the other one and ensure that they are in sync.

I think one can be pragmatic about them being a “living standard” or not. Pick some versioning scheme and decide on marking it final (or not) later.

I don’t want to be the person to do all that for you. I’m happy with my own document with the little tree and I have other things to do. I’m willing to help with the content itself and give advise if someone else wants to take on a significant amount of work and coordinate the effort. I’d be honoured if it is based directly on my document, but anything can be made to work.

Meanwhile, if nobody else wants to take action, the editors may as well explicitly mark this issue as wontfix and close it.

@mnot there is a link to the mailinglist in one of the comments above. 

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