[tech] /.well-known/capability ehlo

[Jason McBrayer]

Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> writes:

>> On Dec 20, 2020, at 02:26, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thoughts? Opinions? Likes? Dislikes? Something?
>> 
>>  Not much.  Strong opinion.  Not at all.  Yes.  And nothing else to add.
>
> Brief, concise, and clear. Thank you.
>
> Cultural issues aside, such mechanism completely bypass the need for any
> protocol changes, while opening the door to infinite extensibility.

Lack of extensibility is an intentional feature. The only way we have to
enforce that, other than social pressure around the spec, is to make
sure that most attempts to extend the protocol will not be
backwards-compatible. 

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