[jhumphries131]

We keep an eye on the protobuf repo, so if a change is made we can both incorporate it into our products (https://buf.build) and into this spec.

A great outcome for the ecosystem would be that Google chooses to engage with the community before making language changes. And the best possible outcome would be that the authority is eventually inverted: a specification doc becomes the definitive source of truth on the language and `protoc` is updated to conform to it, instead of vice versa.