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any update to 3986 must meet requirements for updating IETF Standard #27

Open masinter opened 9 years ago

masinter commented 9 years ago

based on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ietf-w3c/2014Dec/0088.html

From an IETF perspective, what are the requirements for any update for a "Full" standard? I think that's the concern that needs to be addressed.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp9#section-6.3

perhaps take Sam's "great effort to Insure that:" and put it in the document as a requirement for updating 3986, so the interop testing for 3986-conformance doesn't have to be repeated if URL and 3986 agree for almost all values that 3986 considers valid, and the differences carefully explained and justified.

At the moment, this information is in 5.6 (third bullet). as a requirement on URL-LS ....