From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 13:02:16 CST
In <3E25CCE7.5000501@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
> The Goal of this working group is to publish a standards-track
> successor to RFC 1036 that with particular attention to backward
> compatibility, formalizes best current practice and best
> proposed practice. The Group shall also aid and/or oversee the
> production of other Usenet related Internet Drafts and Standards.
>"Standards-track" has a very specific meaning which precludes
>the Usefor draft as it now stands due to a number of issues.
>"Particular attention to backward compatibility" also has quite
>specific meaning.
"Attention to backward compatibility" means simply that everything that
worked before should still work now. It does not mean that all new
innovations have to work instantly with the installed base - that way you
could never innovate anything.
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