URL specification update area

I am working on a revision of RFC 1738 (Uniform Resource Locators) and RFC 1808 (Relative Uniform Resource Locators). This is my active work area, so don't be surprised if the documents change rapidly.

The work is progressing as follows:

  1. I grabbed the current set of URL RFCs and removed the header/footer garbage that makes diff comparisons difficult.
  2. I created a base document (a copy of the original content of RFC 1738 and RFC 1808) which merges the two specs without changing any of the effective content, except in that all of the scheme-specific definitions are removed. This base document will be useful for doing diffs of the actual specification changes (as opposed to just the editorial changes of moving paragraphs around and changing section titles). I will need to make parallel updates to this document whenever I make non-content changes to the new url spec.
  3. I am currently working on the new url spec.