List known external specifications

[OrKoN]

Closes https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/issues/506

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[jgraham]

Is there precedent for having this kind of list in the spec itself? It seems like something that's a pain to keep up to date, and might be better served by an external wiki page or similar.

[OrKoN]

I don't know of any precedents but I agree with https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/issues/506#issuecomment-2092962629 that having links in the spec document would help with discoverability for implementors. As for the overhead of keeping it up to date, I am not sure if it is the same or more effector compared to a wiki page.

[whimboo]

I agree here as well. Having the list of external specs on some Wiki page doesn't make it discoverable. So we would need at least a link to that page in the spec, and updates from our side are necessary in both situations.

[sadym-chromium]

I don't know of any precedents but I agree with #506 (comment) that having links in the spec document would help with discoverability for implementors. As for the overhead of keeping it up to date, I am not sure if it is the same or more effector compared to a wiki page.

+1 for having the links in the spec for discoverability

[OrKoN]

@jgraham do you have concerns still or were they addressed by the discussion? Could we go ahead with merging the PR?

[jgraham]

I'm still a bit worried about the maintenance burden here.

Concretely I think we should make two changes:

• We should move this to an appendix
• We should make it clear that the list is non-exhaustive and that there may be other specifications that also extend BiDi but which are not listed.

[OrKoN]

Moved to an appendix.