Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-archive@xxxxxx from September 2012)

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Mark Nottingham still being the IETF's liaison manager for the W3C liaison,
I assume we will be hearing from him what all this means and how it's
being coordinated.

Some of the "violations" are "motivated by a desire to handle legacy
content". That seems to be in the IETF spirit of "Be strict when sending and
tolerant when receiving" for the sake of backwards compatibility. Any of them
that damage interoperability and compatibility would be more worrisome.

Regards
   Brian

On 24/09/2012 22:31, SM wrote:
> At 11:41 24-09-2012, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> It's not completely clear to me what Anne meant there by saying "the
>> plan is to obsolete the RFCs" (naturally that is not something that
>> anyone outside the IETF can do, although they can ignore the RFCs).
>> It's also not clear to me what the WHATWG HTML Living Standard [1]
>> really means by "willful violation" [2] -- e.g., is it just an
> 
> The following message was posted over a year ago:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg03064.html
> 
> Regards,
> -sm
> 


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