>>>>> On Tue, 24 May 2005 22:39:41 -0400,
>>>>> Ralph Droms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Regarding breaking backward compatibility - this compatibility affects
> only clients, right? Can we answer the question: exactly how would
> existing clients (and I'll bet we can enumerate all the available
> clients) be affected by a change in definition? How would the observed
> behavior of the clients be out-of-spec relative to the new definition?
It depends on the details of the "new definition". For example, a
"radical" change like removing the flags altogether would break the
compatibility. I cannot be more specific at the moment, since the
original message from Thomas did not show specific ideas...
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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