Re: [art] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-15: (with DISCUSS)

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 12/13/2016 8:45 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> AFAIK (though I could be wrong) this would be the first time
> the IESG would have approved a proposed standard that directly
> duplicates text that is on the whatwg's web page [1]
...
> [1] http://url.spec.whatwg.org/


Steve,

Thanks.  And yes, this is interesting.

However your citation is to a long document and what we need to assess 
this sort of issue is some precision about what is being duplicated.

The IETF draft isn't an exact duplicate of the whatwg url spec, if only 
because the IETF draft has undergone extensive revision within the IETF.

So knowing exactly which text replicates exactly which text would help.

It's clearly not a direct 'role' conflict about the basic purpose of 
each specification, since one document is for URLs and the other is for 
file schemes.

Further, the file scheme draft has very few occurrences of the string 
"URL" (3 of which are in the whatwg citation and none that are 
normative) -- and none seem to be normative(!)

The whatwg URL spec does contain a registry-ish entry for a 'file' 
scheme and some text that might be intended to serve as a specification, 
though it's quite terse.

So we still need to refine the problem statement.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net