[UA-EAI] Normalisation norms

Arnt Gulbrandsen arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no
Wed Apr 19 08:43:08 UTC 2017


I think that this is nothing we should bother about. This is not one of 
our top ten problems, and we risk creating accidental implementation 
problems. Little details that turn out to be difficult to 
achieve.

Here is an example: You may remember how marksv mentioned 
that adding EAI addresses is difficult because of integration. 
Office365 addresses are bound to Skype etc via the auth backend 
(details probably are different). If we say "addresses should do x" and 
Skype cannot do x, Microsoft has a problem which requires meetings and 
attention and general resources to resolve. Even if we say "it is a 
little advisable", one of Mark's less intelligent colleagues will miss 
the subtlety, raise the issue and it takes time.

The same applies at 
other companies, expect that the compatibility problem is some other 
legacy code.

The correct optimisation for us is to weigh simplicity of 
implementation heavier than everything else. IMO.

Arnt


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