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Bug 24171 - Clarify relation to RFC 3986
Summary: Clarify relation to RFC 3986
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: URL (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+urlspec
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Reported: 2013-12-27 23:58 UTC by Santiago M. Mola
Modified: 2014-01-06 14:02 UTC (History)
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Description Santiago M. Mola 2013-12-27 23:58:12 UTC 
It seems that the intent of the URL Standard is that a valid URL is also a valid RFC 3986 URI. Or more specific to the spec: serializing a URL that was parsed without any error should produce a valid RFC 3986 URI.

If that is (or is not) the case, a clarification would be useful.
Comment 1 Anne 2014-01-06 14:02:49 UTC 
No that is not the intent. As stated pretty clearly in http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#goals the goal is to obsolete the RFCs.