I would like to extract the WebSocket sections from the HTML and Fetch standards and combine them into a single standard. My major motivation for this is to create a place for the WebSocketStream standard to live, but this is not contingent on that. This work will reduce the number of places implementers have to look to implement WebSocket support, and so is beneficial even if WebSocketStream is ultimately not adopted.

I have a work in progress at https://github.com/ricea/websocket/blob/main/index.bs. This is the HTML WebSocket standard text converted to Bikeshed with the Fetch WebSocket parts pasted in front. The only significant change is that the send() method takes multiple types instead of being overloaded, which was necessary to make Bikeshed happy. I still need to convert the Fetch WebSocket parts to use Bikeshed Markdown, but it may be useful not to do that yet to make review easier.

I propose using the long name "WebSockets" or "The WebSocket standard", and the short name websockets to match the existing wpt directory name, but I am open to other ideas.

I propose myself as one editor of the standard. I am already an editor of the Streams Standard so I roughly know what I am doing. It would be good to have a co-editor from another browser, but I don't have a volunteer at present.

As well as the normal work of starting a new standard, we will have to create redirects from the HTML and Fetch standards to the new locations. This should be a small matter of JavaScript.