On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 04:10:13PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > On 7/3/19 4:04 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > > TL;DR: Being able to mark a specific version of an *Internet Draft* as > > “stable” would often be useful. By encoding information in the name > > (stable-foo-bar-00) we can do this. > > > > Heather and I will be holding a side meeting at IETF 105 to discuss > > the idea and get feedback. > > When: Tue, July 23, 3:00pm – 4:30pm > > Where: C2 (21st Floor) > > It seems to me that this would defeat the entire purpose of Internet-Drafts > and serve to circumvent the IETF process. There should be no expectation > of stability until a document has reached IETF-wide consensus. Implementors regularly ship pre-RFC code... But this doesn't have to be about shipping prior to RFC publication. It can be just about limiting the impact of future edits on existing code that hopefully has not yet shipped anyways. Now, this can be done _today_ by convention -- you just write in the I-D that version starting at version -XX only backwards-compatible changes will be entertained. So maybe there's no need for new work in this area. Nico --
