On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 11:52:18PM -0700, Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> wrote a message of 113 lines which said: > On what changes should actually be made, in my opinion the only > changes that should be made at this point should be to fix glaring > problems in the spec. I guess that creates another problem, because > people can't even agree what a "glaring problem" is! The lack of any mention of IDN and IRI in the spec (and how to handle them) is certainly a glaring problem. We are in 2020, we start a completely new system, internationalization should not be an option. > Solderpunk's been pretty reasonable, so I'll leave it up to them to > actually decide what's a problem and what's not, The way, I understand it, Gemini's governance is basically "Solderpunk decides". This has good properties (it allows to keep the spec consistent, and it avoids the committee effect) and bad ones, too (when Solderpunk is busy with his relocation). But I agree that there is no obvious alternative. > As a second rule of thumb, I'd say no breaking changes, even if they > do fix a problem in the spec. Backwards compatibility is painful, I disagree here. I don't think that backward compatibility should be a goal.
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