Re: [hybi] Adding clarification regarding future revisions (Was: Proposed way forward for WebSockets)

"Shelby Moore" <shelby@coolpage.com> Sun, 15 August 2010 09:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Adding clarification regarding future revisions (Was: Proposed way forward for WebSockets)
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Agreed that a version number doesn't require its use (is not a requirement
to be break interoperability). But absence of a version number does not
stop the addition of a version number to a future version. And thus
"WebSocket" and "WebSocket/1.0" are semantically equivalent.