[lhorie]

That sounds great, but what's the governance story? Are the authors of the spec document committing to keeping the document up to date here henceforth? Are the protoc maintainers committing to have these folks involved in project direction decisions?

[jhumphries131]

As of right now, the former. That is currently required for our tools to remain functioning (https://buf.build). If/when changes are made to the language, we update our tools (and this spec) to continue to be accurate.