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Proposal to drop double slashes from URL syntax

Philip Linde linde.philip at gmail.com

Wed Feb 10 08:48:01 GMT 2021

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On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:12:57 +0100Daniel Nagy <danielnagy at posteo.de> wrote:

The reason for this is that they dont serve any semantic value

They do serve a semantic value. They signify the beginning of theauthority portion of an URI. Not all URIs contain authorities, andthe authoriy means something in the sense that there is a standardizedway to interpret it. That you don't think that this semantic value isimportant, or that it's an important characteristic of Gemini to relyon existing standards is a different matter.

So to add to your list, further disadvantages:- Can't rely as heavily on existing URI standards- "Encouraged" standards lead to unreliable support

For those miniscule advantages I don't see why this should beconsidered.

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