<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 4, 2024, at 9:52 AM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley@oracle.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">In asking about "must", I think you're viewing JEP 14 as a specification that can be tested, leading to conformance badges being given, etc -- but it's not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Perhaps the confusion stems from calling the document a JEP instead of a white paper, which to me would be more accurate.</div><div><br></div><div> Alan</div><div><br></div></body></html>