Re: [tz] Some thoughts about the way forward

On 9/25/21 2:59 PM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

So why not change the sequence to go a to y, then zaa to zzz? That way you never have one ID being the prefix of another.

I had also been considering "z followed by any sequence of lower-case-letters" as one way to extend the version-numbering scheme in practice, while continuing to conform to the specific wording of the current guidelines. Let's keep this idea in our back pocket in case it might be useful in the long term. In the short run, though, it sounds dubious due to the unfortunate Android compatibility issue Almaz mentioned in <https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030621.html>, where Android allows only 5-character version numbers and so cannot go past "2021z".