[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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