[sc34wg3] Re: Backwards Compatability WAS: Public Interest and ISO WAS:[topicmapmail] <mergeMap> questions

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Lars Marius Garshol
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| if you read F.2.4

* Sam Hunting
| 
| *Informative* Annex F?

Spare me, please.

* Lars Marius Garshol
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| We cannot make this change without considering the other issues that
| have been raised (most of them by PMTM4), nor can we do so without
| giving fair warning to all topic map implementors and users that we
| are about to change topic maps ...
 
* Sam Hunting
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| Well, this discussion (pace Murray) is all about giving "fair warning",
| isn't it? 

Of course it isn't! 

We will have a requirements document for the foundational data model,
and that will either say that backwards compatibility is a must, or it
will say that it's not a goal. _That_ would be fair warning.

--Lars M.