Which two different meanings do you mean?

> On 7. Jul 2026, at 16:10, Joel Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Given that even the proposed amends tag has two different meanings, and how 
> nuanced language gets, I think tryng to fix the tag is the wrong answer.  
> Instead, lets clarify the expectation that a draft is explicit and clear 
> about what it is changing relative to RFCs it updates.   Otherwise, this 
> seems to be a recipe for more argumentation about which if any tag a specific 
> draft needs.
> 
> That also leaves to the IESG whether the specific effort to make something 
> retroactively mandatory is appropriate to the specific case, without getting 
> into defining tags that appear to endorse such treatment.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Joel
> 
> On 7/7/2026 6:31 AM, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) wrote:
>> The fact that you said below multiple “to me” makes it very obvious that 
>> everybody is applying their own set of rules to “updates” and the problem is 
>> these don't match. Also again, the draft doesn’t require the use of these 
>> tags, however, it requires that if you use them, they need to align with the 
>> provided definition. I guess we could also discuss this more in the draft, 
>> where it makes sense to use them, e.g. if there is a registry you might no 
>> need the tag or give more examples about other kind of known extension 
>> points. I will open an issue.
>> 
>>> On 7. Jul 2026, at 10:43, Eliot Lear <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Brian,
>>> 
>>> On 07.07.2026 08:13, Brian Rosen wrote:
>>>> In my draft, I added a new interface. It’s optional. It doesn’t use 
>>>> anything that was previously unused.  It’s an entirely new interface that 
>>>> provides some useful information the existing interface doesn’t provide.
>>> To me, the question boils down to whether implementation of your draft 
>>> would violate the base specification.  If it does, then Updates seems 
>>> appropriate (at a bare minimum).  If it doesn't, then no.  If the WG can't 
>>> answer that question crisply, then the underlying protocol may indeed have 
>>> some issues, requiring an Update (or more), in order to handle its 
>>> evolution; although I take your point about the pain of Obsoletes.  We're 
>>> about to go through that with TEAPv2.
>>> 
>>> Michael's use of Amends in 9914 to me is a classic case of Updates, where a 
>>> field that was required to be set to zero is now the P flag.  Updates 
>>> needed (again, at a minimum).
>>> 
>>> As to Extends, or more precisely Extended-by, were it implemented, it could 
>>> not be in the front matter because protocols like SMTP* and TLS would 
>>> become unreadable.  I'm still not clear on whether it would add more value 
>>> or confusion to the reader.
>>> 
>>> Eliot
>>> 
>>> * To answer Michael's question, there has only ever been a single MTI on 
>>> port 25 since RFC 1123, and that is EHLO, which is the only extension that 
>>> is mentioned in 5321bis.
>>> 
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