WG members,

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:30 PM David Schinazi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> My personal opinion is that once we open the floodgates we can't close
> them. More specifically, if someone ships an implementation to production
> in a way that they cannot guarantee that it can be updated, then the
> version used is now immutable. In practice, that means that if you ship a
> client device that uses software updates, because some users do not update,
> then that would lock us in. In that regards, I could see a world where:
>
> 1) Deploying on your server today is OK as long as you can guarantee that
> if the protocol changes you'll be able to disable h3 or deploy a fix in
> under 14 days
> 2) Deploying a client-side experiment today is OK as long as that
> experiment will automatically stop after 14 days if the client device stops
> hearing confirmation that the protocol is still OK to use
> 3) Once -invariants, -transport, -tls, and -recovery have all been
> published as RFCs, then deploying everywhere is OK
> 4) Lack of Alt-Svc doesn't change points 1-3
>
> Thoughts?
>

Does anyone have any additional thoughts wrt to David's posits?

Cheers
Lucas

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