On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 10:03:25AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> >
> > The best outcome would be to fix ip-address to not include the zone,
> > introduce ip-address-zone, and deprecate ip-address-no-zone. My take all
> > the is that all the existing usages do not require zone and this would be a
> > fix as opposed to a change.
> >
> >
> I don't think this will harm our implementations.
> The type is still string. The pattern will change but that is handled by a
> library.
> Whatever pattern is used will get handled the same way.

Either a zone is allowed to be present or it is not, this does make a
difference, its not a cosmetic change.
 
> The same problem exists for 'date' and 'date-no-zone' types,
> but they are not used very much.

Perhaps we should call types a, b, c, and so on - this may force
people to read the descriptions. ;-)

/js

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