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Is there a process for adding new features to a specification?

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Is there a process for adding new features to a specification?

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The process is rather informal, but basically boils down to this: • Research the use cases and requirements by discussing the issue with authors and implementors. • Come up with a clear description of the problem that needs to be solved. • Discuss your proposal with authors and implementors. Read the responses. Listen to the feedback. Consider whether your ideas are good solutions to the use cases and requirements put forward. Discussions here should be done in public, e.g. on an archived public mailing list or documented in blogs. • Get implementors to commit to implementing the feature. If you can’t get several implementors to implement the feature, then get at least one user agent to implement it experimentally. Experimental implementations should be publicly available. • Bring the experimental implementations to the attention of the spec’s editor. Document the experience found from any implementations, the use cases and requirements that were found in the first step, the data that

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