Re: First Draft of W3C version of URL Spec

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Daniel Appelquist wrote:
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> > As you might know, the new charter for webapps includes a new version
> > of the URL spec. I am acting as editor of this spec.
>
> What's the purpose of the W3C republishing this spec?
>

quite obviously, to have a reference to a stable document that follows the
W3C REC process, while WhatWG documents satisfy neither condition



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