YAML Implentation Guidelines

Is the google-group mirror still broken? Did any one else receive this
post? I have replicated below:

I was thinking that it would be a very a good idea to create an offical
YAML Implementation Guide, which could serve as a set of guidelines
for implementation developers. I am not qualified to write such a document
myself, so I can probably only help with surface level details, e.g. proof
reading, etc. But I think it is important. So I want to try to find a way
to encourage those who are qualified to work on it. Of all the people I
know I imagine Oren and Kirill Simonov (the creator of libYAML) might be
the best qualified. What can I do to help this happen?

Also, let me explain how I came to this quest. I use YAML almost
exclusively via Ruby. And Ruby's implementation, Psych, which is build on
top of libYAML, lacks what I consider an important feature for any "LAMP"
language implementation. Namely, it loads arbitrary types without error but
provides no way to access the type tag. e.g.

    YAML.load <<-HERE
      --- !foo
      a: 1
      b: 2
    HERE

This returns a regular old Hash `{'a'=>1, 'b'=>2}`, without anyway of
finding out it is a `!foo`. I have run into use cases that this limitation
makes unworkable, and it strikes me as serious flaw in that it necessarily
requires pre-knowledge of all types that might be loaded. When I approached
the developer of Psych with this, he basically dismissed my concern out of
hand saying he saw no use for it. But I know it really is a serious
failing. That's when I realized that there was no implementation standards
of any kind, and implementors really had nothing to guide them in what was
important for API's to provide (relative, or course, to a given
language's capabilities). Implementors can choose to buck such guidelines,
but at least by having them they would have some point of reference about
what an official API should generally handle.

-Trans

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