<no hat>
On Nov 27, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff(_at_)google(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Will you also be citing ECMA-404 normatively to avoid this sort of divergence
in the future?
If you believe that ECMA-404 will change in the future, that would indicate
that ECMA might break interoperability with current implementations, even for
what they perceive as "good reasons". In general, the IETF tries not to have
its long-lived standards normatively latch on to moving targets for this very
reason. Even when other SDOs have assured us that they will not make
backwards-incompatible changes, they have done so anyway (cue the Klensin-esqe
theme music...), and that has caused serious interoperability problems for the
IETF specs.
--Paul Hoffman