On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:41:33PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I strongly object to requirement 3.1:
> 
> 
>     3.1  The solution MUST provide a mechanism to allow servers to
>             support existing clients in a backward compatible way.
> 
> 
> 
> This is not what servers do today at all.
> They provide only one version of an implemented module, as specified in RFC
> 7950.

But today a backwards incompatible change leads to a new module and
you can very well implement two modules if that is reasonable to do in
order to allow clients a transition period.

/js

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