- From: Erik Wilde via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 18:33:28 +0000
- To: public-tt@w3.org
dret has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/tt-profile-registry: == Registry Stability == it seems that the current policy does not make any assertions about the stability of identifiers and their meaning. this means that it is possible that identifiers get redefined by registry updates. many registries avoid this kind of semantics shift by disallowing updated, or only allowing updates that deprecate values. the reason is that typically, registry contents will be used to write code and and then any changes to entry semantics will break this code by redefining the meaning of an existing value. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-registries-01#section-3.5 makes the point that it is a common pattern to disallow updating semantics. if that isn't done, i would recommend to add a note to developers that identifier semantics may change, which probably will break implementations, even though there is little they can actually do about it. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/tt-profile-registry/issues/17 using your GitHub account
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