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IETF
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Sometimes people say, "Why not IETF?" Now you have two problems. More seriously:
- RFCs often do not match or address implementation requirements for dealing with content on the web
- E.g. URL parsing does not handle spaces, despite them working and being used all over
- Fixing bugs fails http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2012Jun/0044.html
- IANA
- Registries are controlled via an elaborate process; hence x prefixes everywhere
- Registries do not actually match the real world so are useless for implementors
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- ASCII
