[alkonaut]

People will continue to support both framework and core for decades, so library authors that want to support e.g both framework and Core will need to ship libraries targeting .Net standard just like they do today. The question is perhaps whether there will be a new Standard (5 would be a good choice of number) indicating the support needed for .Net 5. Unless there is a competing implementation perhaps there is no need

[jbtule]

I mean, .netstandard 2.1 won't be supported by .net framework sooo, yeah, they just pretty much obsoleted .net standard.

[kevingadd]

(I don't know the answer to this question) wouldn't that just mean that .netframework's last supported version of netstandard is 2, and then you have a netstandard 5 that's supported by .NET 5? I don't feel like that's especially confusing.

[merb]

actually if you need to support core and .net 4 you probably need to target .net standard 1.6-2 anyway, i hope at least .net 5/6 will support that.