| 30 Jul 2025 |
 emily | right. the problem is that there are inevitably multiple consumers | 15:11:52 |
| emily | of any format trying to do any kind of interoperability (or in some cases not trying) | 15:12:02 |
 John Ericson | I like BCS, but I do want some extensibility/versionability | 15:12:22 |
| John Ericson | whihc, unless we want a registry of enum tags, means it is good to have some self-describing strings | 15:12:43 |
| John Ericson | * whihc, unless we want a registry of enum tags, means it is good to have some self-describing sttrings | 15:12:45 |
| John Ericson | so I figure that would already be crossing the rubicon out of "most dense information, minimal self description" | 15:13:30 |
| John Ericson | like, as soon as you have string tags, there is probably some slack like is lexigraphic ordering required | 15:14:07 |
| John Ericson | * like, as soon as you have string tags, there is probably some slack like whether lexigraphic ordering required | 15:14:16 |
