[Spec] Spec (un)freezes and the spec's future

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Sun Dec 20 10:17:17 GMT 2020


It was thus said that the Great Stephane Bortzmeyer once stated:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 11:52:18PM -0700,
>  Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> wrote 
>  a message of 113 lines which said:
> 
> > As a second rule of thumb, I'd say no breaking changes, even if they
> > do fix a problem in the spec. Backwards compatibility is painful,
> 
> I disagree here. I don't think that backward compatibility should be a
> goal.

  I agree with Stephane (as much as I might have hemmed and hawed over
supporting IDN/IDI).  If we don't fix this now, it will be *years* before
it's fixed.  Gemini is still a young protocol.

  -spc


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