On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 09:52:00AM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:

[...]
 
> The "schema" part addresses syntactic changes in protocol messages,
> which are inevitable, and the second part is about risky
> annotations. I agree evil annotations should be banned but I am not
> sure we can find a satisfactory formulation. Do you have any
> suggestion?

Perhaps the simples solution is to remove the first sentence in order
to avoid having 'schema' understood in different ways. (I personally
believe an annotation MUST NOT change data model semantics but lets
try to find a compromise.) So my proposal is to replace the entire
paragraph with:

   Due care has to be exercised when introducing annotations in network
   management systems in order to avoid interoperability problems and
   software failures.  The following aspects should be taken into
   account:

/js

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