Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 ([e-mail] from September 2012)

[David Morris <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Ian Hickson wrote:

> Having multiple specs means an implementor has to refer to multiple specs 
> to implement one algorithm, which is not a way to get interoperability. 
> Bugs creep in much faster when implementors have to switch between specs 
> just in the implementation of one algorithm.

That is true to the extent that all developers have the same objective but 
we've already established that there at least two case:
a) Products which can assume correct URI (STD 66) syntax and reject errors
b) Products which need to handle human mangled input

By writing merging (a) and (b)->(a) you make life more difficult and hence
error prone for (a). I would suggest that the developers of (b) will be
better served by a clear specification of (a) w/o the (b)->(a) concerns
because that will improve their ability to validate URIs generated by
their logic as well as have meaningful discussions with folks who
assume (a).