Perhaps one should wait until a version number higher than “0.0.1” (and perhaps a few audits and independent implementations) to declare something “Standard”, secure, and long-lasting. It does little good to confuse aspirations with actual features.
(Also, this runs into the problem where if your file format is simple enough, everything sufficiently complex implemented on top of it just becomes a meta-file-format with all the same compatibility problems as before, and you’ve implemented a filesystem, not a file format. Compare “XML”, which is technically a “simple file format”, but actual document formats built on it are things like Office XML, which can still be gargantuan monstrosities.)
Yeah, I think that this has great potential, but probably hold off on real world usage with sensitive data until it matures - including audits and independent implementations, as you say.
Perhaps one should wait until a version number higher than “0.0.1” (and perhaps a few audits and independent implementations) to declare something “Standard”, secure, and long-lasting. It does little good to confuse aspirations with actual features.
(Also, this runs into the problem where if your file format is simple enough, everything sufficiently complex implemented on top of it just becomes a meta-file-format with all the same compatibility problems as before, and you’ve implemented a filesystem, not a file format. Compare “XML”, which is technically a “simple file format”, but actual document formats built on it are things like Office XML, which can still be gargantuan monstrosities.)
Yeah, I think that this has great potential, but probably hold off on real world usage with sensitive data until it matures - including audits and independent implementations, as you say.