Not changing the prefix

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Thu Feb 26 22:37:33 CET 2009


andrew and I are in agreement here.

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On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:09 PM, 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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