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

> User reports from my own library ([WebURL for Swift](https://github.com/karwa/swift-url)) suggest the same thing: that web compatibility is what people care about, more than conformance to RFC-this-or-that.

I'm sure people mostly care about compatibility, but the robustness principle has well known hazards [[draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-05](https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-05.html)]. Maybe these hazards don't apply to some, but that does not mean they don't exist. 

I want to understand and communicate what constitutes a valid URI, and I don't want to do this exclusively in code that is translated by hand from a natural language specification, but also in discourse, and I feel what this spec offers is not meeting my need, and I feel a grammar would help, which brings us back to the topic at hand, as this issue is not about whether or not goals which has not been attained by this standard is attainable or not, it is also not about what users in abstract really want, it is about a succinct grammar for valid URL strings.

Given the WHATWG has so far made it clear they are not interested in defining a grammar for WHATWG URLs I don't understand why this issue has not been closed.

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