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On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:58:15PM -0400, David Noveck wrote:
> However, if one had been made, it would have been rejected.   It is not the
> function of the errata mechanism to make substantive protocol changes like
> this, even if the wg thinks the original consensus decision was wrong.  To
> do that you need a standards-track document updating the original one and
> addressimg compatibility issues. Nobody was up for that at the time or
> seems to be now.

Do we have any sort of informal todo list for a 7862bis?

--b.