The WHATWG URL living standard contains (in its “goals” section) the following line:
Align RFC 3986 and RFC 3987 with contemporary implementations and obsolete the RFCs in the process. (E.g., spaces, other “illegal” code points, query encoding, equality, canonicalization, are all concepts not entirely shared, or defined.) URL parsing needs to become as solid as HTML parsing. [RFC3986] [RFC3987]
Does this means that RFC 3986 and 3987 are obsolete? But if is it so, then why the IETF still states RFC 3986 as an internet standard? Please also provide references if possible.
Also, if you have any sort of extra information regarding the 2nd point in the same section linked above, that will also be helpful.
The WHATWG URL living standard provides no other relevant information regarding the above statement as far as I was able to search for. I wasn’t able to find any relevant article on popular sites like wikipedia , mdn docs, w3c , reddit etc. Chatgpt just rephrased the statement without giving much insight.
To me, this seems similar to discrepancy of w3c and whatwg on html standards until 2019.
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