Not changing the prefix

[Martin Duerst]

I agree very much with Andrew.     Regards,    Martin.

At 06:09 09/02/27, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:56:30AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> At what point does this WG consider changing the prefix? 

>In any case, I think the answer to Paul's question above is "never".
>The WG's charter explicitly says that if we decide we need to change
>the prefix, we stop work and try to recharter.  We accepted in the
>charter that we might have not-backward-compatible changes without
>changing the prefix.  Despite my attempts to insist we look very hard
>and long at those backward incompatibilities, I don't think we have
>yet reached the point where we "stop work and recommend that a new
>charter be generated."
>
>Best,
>
>A
>
>
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