I am actually not worried about breakage. I was talking about change. Pubrules requires W3C publications in date space to be STABLE. They cannot change. If they are dynamic, then they can by definition change. Also, they can be *different* in one user agent vs. another. That's unacceptable. W3C Recommendations are the basis for laws in some cases. They are cited as normative references by organizations outside of the W3C. While I would readily agree that it is unlikely that normative content would *change*, something as simple as an ID being generated that changes could break a link between specs. We can't have that. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote: > > On July 14, 2014 at 3:40:41 PM, Frederick Hirsch (w3c@fjhirsch.com) wrote: > > How much chance of breakage is there with old documents assuming old > interfaces (in particular > > for ReSpec)? My tentative answer is that ReSpec has stabilized since the > big update Robin > > made ages ago (which did have some upgrade issues, as expected given the > newness of the > > entire endeavor). > > Yeah, the chance is it's pretty minor. It's likely that specs that are > still using the old version of Respec are dead specs anyway (so it's > unlikely that it would cause any problems). >
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