On 30/10/17 21:42, Eliot Lear wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On 10/30/17 4:48 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> >>> 1. Is it stable, mature, and immutable (except for errata)? >> Those are not well known characteristics of open source projects. >> Even if we tie a reference down to a very specific version, >> I'm unclear how that can truly act as a stable reference. It may >> be stable in a mathematical sense, but it may also be seven years >> behind deployed reality. > > That's why point 4 is important: Is it intended as a public interface? > If the intent isn't there then this isn't the right mechanism.  We may > want to broaden out that intent statement to be a bit more explicit > about intent of stability. I like the idea, but would echo Brian's concerns. Maybe some examples would help though? What examples have you in mind (as authors) or can you point at some? The ones that occur to me first wouldn't be so easy to handle I think (in case you wonder those are: jabber/OTR and ssh and pgp algorithm specs). It might be that there's a good way to handle such, and that'd probably be a good thing if there were, but I'm not sure TBH. Ta, S. > > Eliot >
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