- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:59:41 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, URI <uri@w3.org>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>, mnot@mnot.net
On 2012-10-22 19:55, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> On 18/10/2012 02:25, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: >>> On 10/17/2012 7:57 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >>>> Yeah. Turns out we (the Web standards community) haven't been doing >>>> such a great job of making our specificatiosn match reality.:-( >>> >>> Um, true... but it's also the case that the implementation community >>> hasn't over the years been doing as much as might be best to make >>> reality match the specifications. The new specs we're writing now >>> would like have been a lot thinner and cleaner if they had. >> >> However, I think the concern here is that if certain IETF specs need to >> be updated to match the real world, that work needs to be done in the >> IETF. > > I couldn't agree more! We've been waiting for four years for the URI > working group to get their act together and fix the URL mess. Nothing has > happened. We lost patience and are now doing it ourselves. > ... Clarifying: there is no URI Working Group, and as far as I can tell, there is no consensus that there is a "mess" to fix related to URIs. There *is* indeed a *IRI* Working Group which planned to define things that occur in HTML links (including sanitizing whitespace and dealing with the problems with non-ASCII characters), and *that* WG indeed hasn't delivered yet. Best regards, Julian
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