Re: [dispatch] RFC 3896 and 3987 vs WHATWG URL Living Standard

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Saturday, June 5, 2021 15:35 -0700 Larry Masinter
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Recent progress on WHATWG's URL spec led me to suggest a BOF
> on the topic for IETF 111
> 
> Provide a succinct grammar for valid URL strings
> <https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/479> . Issue #479 .
> whatwg/url (github.com)  
> 
> But I didn't get an ack, and perhaps this belongs in
> DISPATCH/ART etc.

Larry,

This is a question rather than a statement of preference because
I have not thought about it in some time, but are you thinking
it may be time to either revise or deprecate 3896 and 3897?  I
may not have enough information but it seems clear to me that,
in terms of the specs to which implementers are paying
attention, the action has shifted toward WHATWG (and, to a
lesser extent, W3C) and away from the IETF documents.

If deprecating the IETF URI and IRI specs is really the question
(or part of it), I'd think either a BOF or a well-prepared
presentation and a rather large block of time in DISPATCH would
be appropriate.

best,
  john