> So I don’t think it’s really a good idea to do a big re-engineering of the protocol just to make it easier for implementers I'm not so sure. Maybe it's not

> So I don’t think it’s really a good idea to do a big re-engineering of the protocol just to make it easier for implementers I'm not so sure. Maybe it's not the case today, but if the protocol eventually becomes so large, so crufty, so under-specified that implementers struggle to provide their implementations, then users suffer.