On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 09:42:39AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> 
> IMO the 4 separate ways to identify the schema are 3 too many, but that
> is what the WG wants.  It seems obvious that any reader of the file
> has to implement all 4 methods and any writer of the file is free to pick
> just one.
> So the feature does not really help.
>

The feature statements declare that implementation won't work
together. Back in a day, the IETF was all about interoperability (and
implementation costs). Nowadays we seem to be fine if implementations
declare that they won't work together. Well, still slightly better
than having implementations fail arbitrarity.

/js

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