[Openid-specs-ab] FW: thoughts on deployed code and breaking changes

[Mike Jones]

FYI

-----Original Message-----
From: jose-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:jose-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Karen O'Donoghue
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:05 AM
To: jose at ietf.org
Subject: [jose] thoughts on deployed code and breaking changes

Folks,

I *personally* believe the time for major breaking changes is past for this version of the specification. I believe we are now in the phase of final corrections and minor tweaks for a v1.0. We scheduled an interim meeting in April to get all remaining issues on the table and discussed. These specifications have been evolving for a long time. I am sure that they could be improved in a myriad of ways, but at this point, without a strong rationale and a ground swell of working group support, we should work to complete what we have. Any major refactoring or new  functionality should be deferred as future work. At that time, we can work to "break cleanly with existing code." We better serve the IETF and the broader community by getting these specifications out the door. 

We will have an interim teleconference Monday (with a few more possibly to follow) to review the implementation of the interim discussions and to discuss any final issues. I strongly encourage folks to review the specifications and the minutes of the interim with that in mind. 

Regards,
Karen

_______________________________________________
jose mailing list
jose at ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose