Re: [Ltru] Last open item

Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:

> So my proposal is to change the above lines to drop the first one, and 
> change the second to:
>
> Values in the fields 'Type', 'Subtag', 'Tag', and 'Added' MUST NOT be 
> changed and are guaranteed to be stable over time. Values in the 
> 'Deprecated' and 'Preferred-Value' MUST NOT be changed unless the tag 
> or subtag in the Preferred-Value field is itself deprecated, or if a 
> deprecation is reversed in one of the source standards.

I no longer have a strong opinion on this.  I know that at one point it 
was agreed that we should never, ever change Deprecated and 
Preferred-Value fields, in the interest of stability.  If that is no 
longer a concern, or if we were wrong about the amount of stability thus 
provided, then this change is fine.

My usual concern is that, if we want to change one of our own decisions 
from the past, we should understand why we came to that decision in the 
first place.  That criterion seems to be fulfilled here.

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