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

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Hi Noah,

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.
It can't be done by reference in a W3C document; it has to be done by value
in an IETF document.

So it seems to me there is an open liaison question here and I'd like to hear
from the IETF/W3C liaison how this will be resolved.

Regards
    Brian