On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 4:13 PM Barry Leiba <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the points of "deprecation" is that we don't eliminate it > entirely, but say that it's no longer used. New implementations no > longer generate it, but implementations that are interested in > backward compatibility will still include support for it on receipt. > > Eventually, when we see that its use is rare enough, the community > might move to no longer include support (no longer needing backward > compatibility). But I expect that support on receipt would remain for > some time. > > Barry > As soon as we say deprecated, the justifications for backwards compatibility become tenuous. If a sender has no reasonable expectation that most validators will respect their request, why would they make such a request (other than in ignorance). I think very few would argue that using percent is a long term strategy for any given domain. Either percent is useful or it is not. Michael Hammer
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