For things like #3, would it be a better idea to propose a generic enhancement for “optional vendor extensions” to the protocol? These extensions would be negotiated during connection formation and then the driver could (optionally) implement these additional features. These extensions would be documented separately by the vendor, and the driver’s default behavior would be to ignore any extensions it doesn’t understand.
With that sort of feature, the Scylla folks (CosmoDB too??) could add extensions to the protocol without forking the protocol spec, (potentially) without forking the drivers, and without laying down a C* roadmap that the C* project hasn’t agreed to. Someday down the line, if C* implements a given capability, then the corresponding “vendor extension” could be incorporated into the main protocol spec… or not. Lots and lots of protocols implement this type of technique — SMTP, IMAP, PNG, Sieve, DHCP, etc. Maybe this a better way to go? - Max --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
