Re: ED URLs

I think it is important to be able to reference a specific spec.  I
wouldn't want ReSpec magically deciding to change my normative reference
from an editors draft to a (potentially very different) WD.


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Seems like we're going to be able to get ED urls directly from the W3C RDF
> file soonish.
>
> Would like your thoughts on how to best integrate that in the Specref API.
>
> I see two options:
>
> 1. Pass an extra query param to specify what you want, e.g.:
>
> http://specref.jit.su/bibrefs?refs=service-workers&type=ED|TR|LATEST
>
> Which would give you, respectively:
>
> - https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/
> - http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/
> - http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-service-workers-20140508/
>
> This has the benefit that ReSpec could be smart about it and pick ED when
> the spec is in ED, but change to TR for publishing WDs for example.
>
> 2. Automatically generate extra references, e.g.:
>
> http://specref.jit.su/bibrefs?refs=service-workers-ED
> http://specref.jit.su/bibrefs?refs=service-workers-TR
> http://specref.jit.su/bibrefs?refs=service-workers-LATEST ?
>
> We could also do a mix of both.
>
> LMK your thoughts.
>
> --tobie
>
>