IANA actions and tables document

Erik van der Poel erikv at google.com
Fri Dec 12 16:49:08 CET 2008


> The chances that there will be an incompatible change
> are slim, but the chances that the IETF will want to override
> and follow the UTC are way, way slimmer. There are at least two
> reasons for this: (1) backwards compatibilit (we don't suddenly
> want to make illegal potentially existing domain names)

Actually, the IETF does sometimes make incompatible changes. See, for
example, the differences between IDNA 2003 and 2008. Of course, there
have to be good reasons to make such changes.

Erik


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