I read your recent article on ossification. Thanks for that insight, very educating.

I had a question, and hear this from a perspective of me simply just trying to understand. Is there a definitive process to “declaring” ossification? Or is it something that just gradually happens over time? It would seem (based on my understand, or lack thereof) that the protocol will ossify naturally when it is ready to. Am I understand that correctly?

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I assume that definitive ossification of any FOSS software is impossible. But would also like to hear from devs.

Ossification of software is impossible.

Ossification of network protocols is inevitable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glX2Y-VVNnI