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Payment Method Identifiers specification
https://w3c.github.io/payment-method-id/
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citation to dated version of since-abandoned url spec fork is unusual #30

Closed dbaron closed 7 years ago

dbaron commented 7 years ago

The References section currently cites a dated version of a spec:

[url-1-20141209] URL. Anne van Kesteren; Sam Ruby. W3C. 9 December 2014. W3C Working Draft. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-url-1-20141209/

whose "Latest version" link leads to https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-url-1-20161206/, which says:

Work on this document has been discontinued and it should not be referenced or used as a basis for implementation. Please refer to the URL Continually Updated Specification for the latest available specification of this API.

(emphasis mine).

Given this state of the document, it seems odd that Payment Method Identifiers references it.

(I got here from w3ctag/spec-reviews#152.)

marcoscaceres commented 7 years ago

Oh, thank goodness (well, thank Annevk) they gave up on the URL spec. Will update the reference... now, can we get the same for DOM and HTML? 🤓

ianbjacobs commented 7 years ago

I believe that we can refer to WhatWG specs that have material not present in W3C versions.

zkoch commented 7 years ago

Assigning to Marcos because he said: "Will update the reference"

Also he didn't object in the meeting ;)