On 1 Nov 2017, at 12:40, Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1 November 2017 at 12:35, Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote: >> As such, I've prepared a change of XEP-0001 here: >> https://github.com/mwild1/xeps/commit/9cebf36e11d5918352b49c1a3e27fec2f17d8005 > > Without my Board hat on... a couple of things jumped out at me with > this change (which currently is mostly a simple word replacement and > the addition of a note): > > 1) "Although [...] backwards-incompatible modifications shall be > avoided if at all possible, deployment of a Stable protocol in > mission-critical application may not be advisable." > > The name "Stable" implies that the specification is, well, stable. I > would suggest that we either remove or modify this sentence.
I think this is a different change from simply renaming Draft to Stable, this is suggesting we change what the meaning of the state currently referred to as Draft means, and again I think we should have a firm business (for some definition of business) case for why that’s a good idea before we go making such a change. /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
