[Atp] Re: Andy Newton's Block on charter-ietf-atp-00-00: (with BLOCK)

[Daniel Holmgren <[e-mail]>]

How does this sound? I'll make the suggestion on the GitHub PR as well.

"All existing work must undergo a consensus process. Proposed changes to
the existing approach must be weighed against their impact on deployed
implementations."

On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM Andy Newton <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
>
> On 1/7/26 2:53 PM, Daniel Holmgren wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > Thank you for the prompt feedback.
> >
> > ## Item 1
> > The intent is not to say "non-breaking", we're comfortable with breaking
> changes where justified. The goal with "gratuitous" is to respect the
> participants in the currently deployed network and to serve as a guardrail
> against major architectural reworkings and preferential/arbitrary changes,
> while still preserving the ability to make substantive and justified
> changes.
> >
> > We lifted the language from the JMAP charter (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-jmap/01/ <
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-jmap/01/>) and figured
> the word was understood within the IETF context. If "gratuitous" is too
> subjective, are there any common ways to signal a similar sentiment?
>
> It probably shouldn't have been in the JMAP charter either.
>
> My suggestion is that you either remove the clause or be more specific
> about what you want. Some of the words you have used above are better, IMHO.
>
> >
> > ## Item 2
> > This may have been the result of a formatting error on our part which
> Orie recently fixed (
> https://github.com/ietf-artarea/charters/blob/67c6036f8205a6ec02da5cd2999bd0638635fdc0/atp/charter.md
> <
> https://github.com/ietf-artarea/charters/blob/67c6036f8205a6ec02da5cd2999bd0638635fdc0/atp/charter.md
> >).
> >
> > How is this wording?
> > "Document(s) describing interface requirements and selection criteria
> for account identifier resolution systems, and defining a public registry
> and update process for recommending specific account identifier resolution
> systems"
>
> Much better.
>
> -andy, ART AD
>