[SPEC-CHANGE] Mandatory scheme in request and link URLs

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 07:38:21PM +0100,
 Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> wrote 
 a message of 42 lines which said:

> leaving existing behaviour of assuming a scheme of gemini in place
> could be considered a valid application of Postel's law.

Note that one of the reasons why the Web became so bloated is
precisely Postel's law (the robustness principle). Browsers and
servers violate the spec, these violations soon became
de-facto-mandatory-to-support and one after the other, the "unofficial
spec" became much larger than the real one.

That's one of the reasons why Postel's law is quite criticized today
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-protocol-maintenance/>.