Re: [arch-d] I-D Action: draft-iab-protocol-maintenance-08.txt

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Fri, 15 July 2022 02:45 UTC

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> On Jul 14, 2022, at 5:01 PM, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
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> The central point is that the very concept itself (as Joe stated it) is not a good basis for building a protocol ecosystem

It’s not the basis. It’s a rule for handling cases that are or could be ambiguous, which no one can ever completely avoid. 

If you try to use it as THE basis, you will get in trouble. But nobody ever said to do that, imo including Jon. 

Joe