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