On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 23:03, Wes Hardaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ray Bellis <[email protected]> writes: > > > This new draft describes a way for clients and servers to exchange a > > limited amount of information where the semantics of that information > > are completely unspecified, and therefore determined by bi-lateral > > agreement between the client and server operators. > 8< What happens when the upstream software changes? Or the upstream server > is taken over by a new company that deploys entirely new semantics? How > is that change communicated to all the clients? What if the new bits > mean something entirely different, potentially the exact opposite? How > are conflicts like this handled? > The conflict never arises. As the man said, "[semantics are] determined by bi-lateral agreement". If the counter-party decides to do something different, it has repudiated the agreement. --Dick
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