RE: [ws-rx] a meta-comment

+1

 

We should consider one issue (or a related bunch 
of them) at a time and try to make progress. Until the TC collectively 
decides to stop opening new issues (e.g. spec freeze for a given release), it 
always remains possible that a solution for some new issue may 
undo/update/replace the solution for some previously resolved issue(s). Of 
course it behooves us to be cautious in effecting new changes and ensure 
that the previously addressed issues remain such and all the past hardwork is 
simply not lost, at least not unknowingly!

 

Talk to you soon.

 

Thanks,

Sanjay 

  

  
  From: Jacques Durand 
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A 
  meta-comment:

  
 

  
I am not concerned (or less than 
  before :- ) about the "risk" that resolving a future issue may undo parts of a 
  solution to a current issue. Taking an example: i019 and i028 have a proposal 
  on the table that - I believe - works. It could be that the solution to a 
  future issue calls for a consolidation that may undo parts of what has been 
  accepted before (as long as all issues are still addressed) - we just do not 
  know, and cannot know today.

  
I consider this as inherent to the 
  incremental nature of the way we work. It may not look optimal, but its just 
  part of the process. There is no way we can be sure that all we design today 
  is final, as long as the set of issues itself is still not 
  final...

  
 

  
Jacques