Proposal: splitting the network package

[Ben Millwood]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:54:44AM +0100, Gregory Collins wrote:
>   - the existing Network.URI code is inefficient by design and cannot be
>   improved without breaking user code

It also cannot be improved without finding someone willing to improve 
it. I suspect that's going to be the bigger obstacle in practice, and we 
should wait until we have a replacement before dismissing the original 
(see also: old-locale).